HANKOW SITUATION CHINESE CUSTOMS
WORSE.
GROWING "FEELING AGAINST JAPANESE.
STRIKE COMMITTEE'S ORDERS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"
HANKOW, Jan. 1oth.
The anti-Japanese situation here is growing more serious. Following the reported beating up by Japan -ese marines of one of the distribu- tors of leaflets who was arrested
CHANGES.
TIMES" ON FOREIGN.
CREDITORS.
EARLY AGREEMENT,
(THROUGH NEUTRB's 'AⱭENCY.}`
LONDON, Jan. 10th..
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11th, 1929.
RESIGN.
GENERAL ASKED TO A TURN FOR THE
BETTER.
REBELS HOLD THE ADVANTAGE.
SHOWMAN'S BOW.
LAST
·SALVATION ARMY
SENSATION.
SECRET LETTER DIS- CLOSED.
OPTIMISM AT THE PALACE. FIGHTING CONTINUES NEAR FUNERAL OF TEX RICHARD.
GOOD NEWS OF THE KING.
(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
KABUL.
AIR MAIL SERVICE ORGANISED.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCE.]
LAVISH DISPLAY IN NEW
YORK...
[REUTER'A AMERICAN SERVICE)
Naw Toxx, Jan. 10th. Nry DILI, Jan. 10th. It is announced that the Royal the Madison Square Garden and Thirty thousand people crowded Air Force has evacuated altogether made the last adventure of Tex
yesterday, and who is alleged to that of foreign capital, and the consisting of Commissioner Hig-sidered a very encouraging con- been given for a weekly air mail was transformed into a gorgeous
Restful Night.
PROSPERITY OF AUSTRALIA.
BRITISH COMMISSION'S
ADVICE.
LIMITATION OF IMMIGRA- TION.
(THROUGH AEUTER'S AGENCT.]
SYDNET, Jan. 9th. · That Australia's desire for deve
from est showinan.
£3,000 silver and bronze coffie lay on schemes which have not been The magnificent the spending of far too much money
in: the middle of the polished and, at the present time, could not marble floor of the Garden, which be profitable is the unanimous bower by palms, roses and örehidr. opinion of a British. Financial Mig- All classes of society, from topsion, which has just submitted "a" hatted millionaires down to men with cauliflower ears and dented report to the Australian Govern noses, Bled past. Tex Rickard's widow fainted near the coffin and ment. was led away by Jack Dempsey,
service from India to Kabul, ·
No further news has been received
{THROUGH REUTER'S (AGENCY)]
LONDON, Jan. 10th. The King passed "a quiet night The Times in a leader does noɑ
LONDON, Jap. 10th on Wednesday night and there is see in the displacement of Mr. "The Salvation Army Commis little change in his condition Edwardes by Mr. Maze as Inspectorsioners have declined to confirm to
It is generally conceded in 132 persons by air from Kabul A¤ | Rickard "worthy of America's great. apment has led in recent years to General of Customs a desire to
Palace circles that the King has aeroplane yesterday flew Reuter the report that they have
at long last taken a definite turn Peshawar to Kabul and back with destroy the international character.
received letter from General for the better. The absence of an of the Customs administration. It
mails as all telegraphs to Afghanis says that China's, greatest need is Booth appointing" a new council official morning bulletin is con
tan have been cut Permission has confidence of foreign lenders degins, Evangeline and Catherine firmation of progress. the brother of the coolle killed by pends on the continuance of the Booth and two others, to adminis the Japanese naval cyclist patrol, present system of Customs adminis.
ter the affairs of the Army instead official of the Bureau of Foreign | tration.
The Time considers that Chine, of him. It is pointed out that, Afairs and the Japanese Consulate will be well advised to come to under the constitution of the have been in continual conference some agreement without delay with Army, once the High Council is in a step will immensely improve her session neither the General aor Meanwhile the anti-Japanese credit and help largely to consoli- anyone else, is empowered to make. agitation is inerensing and the mob date the present reginic,
Mir Maze was formally installed any appointment for the adminis seems to be working' itself into a
as Inspector-General at the Shang-tration of Army affairs, and such frenzy. Some of the Chinese ser-hai Customs House on Thursday
a council as suggested would have morning. vants and office workers employed
no "authority even if established.
over the situation.
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unsecured foreign creditors, as such
by the Japanese have ceased work THE RESIGNATION OF MR. but the majority are standing fast.
All Chinese whart coolies employed
by Japanese firms are on strike.
(Fah Te Tai Pao),'
Strike Regulations,
SHANGHAI, Jan. 10th.
An anti-Japanese strike com. mittee has already been formed at Hankow, which is responsible for the organisation of three corps of pickets, about two hundred in aum ber, who are posted at points along the concession boundaries. The pickets are charged with the duty of maintaining order during the present crisis,
viz.:
EDWARDES.
SHANGHAI PAPER'S OUT. SPOKEN COMMENT.
CUSTOMS AND VENAL
INFLUENCES.
state-
Official Communiqué.
A Salvation Army communiqué issued later states that after the reception of the letter from the General, the High Council resolved to submit to him a resolution, pass- ed by the Council without a dissen tient vote, recording their high 3ppreciation of his life and labours.
I was stated officially at Buck of the fighting in Afghanistan ingham Palace on Wednesday morn ing that there was still no material that the rebels appear to change in the King's fhdition, thin the superior position in the though His Majesty had spent a fairly restfub night.
attack near Kabul.
4
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
who was master of ceremonies at the funeral. The crowd were ob viously thrilled 'nt the music,
No morning balletin was issued, AMERICA'S NEW AIR LINES. prayers and flowers. for the second day in succession, and one nightly bulletin is likely to be the procedure in future unless His Majesty takes an unexpected turn for the worse..
It is again emphasised that the progress of the King must of necessity be very slow because of the great loss of strength during a Jong and exhausting illness.
The following bulletin was issued from the Palace at 8.15 p.m. to day:
Increased Strength, " "The King has had a quiet day. God for this partial restoration to progress. There is a slight increase They join him in gratitude The Jocal condition makes steady health and hope that the improve-in strength. No further bulletin will be issued until tomorrow evening."
(Signed) STANLEY HEWITT,
It had been intended to make no
APPEAL TO THE PRIME MINISTER.
HUGE POSTAL SURPLUS.
(BAITISH WIRELESS SERVICK"]
RUGBY, Jan. 10th. An appeal to the Government to restore peuny postage has been made by the Chambers of Com..
meet Exchequer needs.
INAUGURATED.
MISS EARHEART AS PILOT.
[SECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
MIAMI, Jan. 10th.
line, linking fire countries, includ- America's first international air ing the British West Indies, with the United States, was inaugurated and passenger aeroplanes for Cuba, with the departure of four mail Haiti. San Domingo, the Bahamas and Porto Rico.
The Postmaster- "General
A
tie fame, piloted the machine for aboard the plane for San Juan Havana
while Miss Earhart, of trans-At'an-
THE EGYPTIAN SEASON.
WEALTH AND COMEDY OF
ITS TOURISTS.
The development schemes speci- ficd have, the "Mission state, been undertaken regardless of their probable aancial and economic results, and money has been spent which could have been diverted into more profitable channels.
Able Chairman. -
The group of financiers and business men who are members of Cairo, December 15th (U.P.)the Mission are headed by Bir Once again Egypt is shaking off sides there is a rustle of anticipation engineer, who has specialised in festival somnolence and upon all Arthur Duckham, the famous civil as the time, draws near for the engineering connected with chemi- arrival of the first batch of tourists cab developments, and who has every winter. Guides or dragomen, nection with engineering schemes who flock to Egypt in thousands travelled all over the world in con." as they are called, bring out their The Mission, in the course of its
most colourful robes and turbans to investigations in Australia, baş catch the eye of Transatlantic travelled over 20,000 miles, and
romances of the cinematograph.ments of the various States, many visitors, especially ladies, whose has conferred with the Common- minds are full of the sheik,wealth Govenment, the Govern-
Hawkers lay in stocks of glittering public bodies, including Labour beads, brass - ornaments, and organisations, producers, traders' variety of cheap curios most of associations and so on. which are specially manufactured
into
Commission's View.
ip-
Telegrams in Brief.
Reflection does nothing to dispel Edwardes resignation, says the the ugly impression caused by Mr. North China Daily News in the course of a, leading article. When he was appointed Officiating, Ir- spector-General on October 2nd, it ment will be maintained, but the
SCHNEIDER TROPHY the Council is unable to see the prac was widely reported that general conditions of the appoint-
CONTEST. went made it impossible for himicability of the suggestion of
Hugs M RIGBY.
in Europe, whilst there is a brisk business in Egypt itself in the cial position of Australis seems Their report says that the Aaan. DAWSON OF PENE. to accept. He did accept, however, General Booth, realising that it is
DETAILS OF THE RACE. October 20th, and Nanking very unlikely at his advanced age last n sufficient advance has been
making of scarabs and other "anti- dr
Much satisfaction is felt that st
quities." So accurate are some of thoroughly sound, in spite of the simultaneously published a
{ARITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] The Strike Committee has issued ment that it had no idea of allow that he can recover sufficiently to made to justify this more definite
these forgeries that even experts the revenues are ample to provide expenditure criticised, inasmuch as.. decree governing the strikers, ing the unity of his authority to
are sometimes deceived. statement. An increase in strength,
RUGBY, Jan. 10th. be impaired. But the hopes thus take up the burdens under which even when it is qualified as slight, This year's international sen-
Already Shepheard's, that famous for public services and to repay (1) Those who disobey, the orders raised, that all the gossip and in- he collapsed. of the Strike Committee will be trigue of which the Customs hud
is important since. His Majesty's plane contest for the Schneider hotel known to everyone who has the interest of the sinking fund of general condition and the weak trophy, which was won last year ever been there, has opened its the public debt.
The Mission, recommends," among sternly punished.
Asked To Retire. been the centre for many months.
ness which the continuous strain of by Great Britain, has been fixed to doors in readiness for the reception (2) Those who are found to was now happily ended, have been bave conspired with the enemy and disappointed."
The Council requests him to co- such a long and trying illness in-take place on September 6th and of the visitors, and the tourist com- other things
(1) A re-modelling of the two reactionaries will be treated as
A man does not lightly resiga operate in securing the future wel-volves had been for some time the 7th over the Solent. The first day panies have mobilised their army of
chief anxiety of his doctors. will be devoted to tests of naviga-aervants of every rank. The organi two Navigation Acts.
sation of the tourist traffic has been (i.) The imitation of the pro- traitors.
from such a position, especially st | face of the Army. To that end
bility and seaworthiness (3) No Chinese employee is the present juncture in China's
The actual race is over seven cir- brought to a high pitch of peries tective tariff where it supports i alowed to return to work in a fairs, when his resignation must the Council resolves that, the RESTORE PENNY POSTAGE.cuits of a 50 kilometre triangular tion. Every year, during the sum
efficiently organised industries. Japanese firm or residence without have serious international rese- General being, as the doctors assure
course, equivalent to a distance of mer, a meeting is held in London (i) The introduction as rapid- the consent of the Strike, Com. tions. In respect of the Customs
218 miles in all, and will take of representatives of the principal as possible of uniformity of
and Federal State income tax. mittee.
steamship, railway, the noblesse oblige of loyalty to thes, capable of considering import-
place, weather permitting, on hotel, (4) No one is allowed to do Service as a whole is, or ought to ant questions and giving decisions
(iv) The functioning of "the Saturday September 7th.
tourist companies, at which dele- damage to foreign life or property.be, intensified by the thought of thereon, the President, Vice
gates of the Egyptian State Rail-Arbitration Courts only as a last (5) Btrikers are forbidden to the extreme gravity that must re- President and five members of the
ways are also present. Estimates resort.
(v.) The introduction of a uni Squeeze money or receive bribes. sult in these critical days from
LIFEBOAT FUND QUARREL are made of the probable number of A Scume.
any scandal attaching to the Ser- High Council shall be deputed to
visitors for the coming season, and form gauge on the railways. vice through actions likely to im. see the General and suggest that he
detailed arrangements are made for (vi) The encouragement of im- The anti-Japanese criais has be
pair its integrity and stability.now retire from office, retaining the
DISPUTE OVER £32,000 FOR the co-ordination of the various migration only in proportion to come more severe, according to the with every other institution in title of General and continuing to
„RYE VICTIMS.
public and private services. Each Australia's powers of absorption. latest message from Hankow, The
big batch of tourists is carefully The Mission concludes by express- situation of the Japanese Conces. Chins rocking to its foundation or enjoy the honours and dignities
Rye, December 12th.-A fierce com timed to arrive and depart without ing the opinion that, it would be sion, is critical and communications actually in atoms, in view of the attaching thereto.
immense interests that are bound
to attempt to increase migration. with the outside world have been up in the Customs and of its im communication to the prass concern merce, the Federation of British troversy has sprung up over the involving the overlapping which inopportune at the present time completely suspended. The Japan portance to the national credit, ing this resolution until the General Industries and many other repre- distribution of the £32,000 raised by would lead to confusion and over- ese Consul has ordered a further the first thought of every member had time to receive and consider it sentative organizations. In a letter the public for the dependants of the crowding, and steamships and rail- from Great Britain, and emphasises force of Japanese marines to land of the staff would naturally be to but in view of the fact that the to the Prime Minister the signatories gallant lifeboatmen of Rye Har- ways, follow a minutely arranged the fact that Australia's exports of manufactured goods are practically «and defend the concession.
protect the Service from whatever terms of the General's letter bad point out that in the last few years bout, who gave their lives in the timetable,
The arrival of a big steamer like negligible. Yesterday night there
A WLS might weaken its standing. It was been communicated without the the Government has sought to epic drama of the sea last month.
a sight well slight clash between the Japanese not only a question of departmen- knowledge of the Council to justify the postponement of this This squabble over the money has the Mauretania is and the Chinese strikers The tal loyalty and co-operation, but London journal, the Council had reform on the ground that the Post brought further gloom and misery worth secing. Under the direction Japanese are reported to have torn of duty both to foreigners in decided to release the resolution Office surpluses were required to into the little cottage homes of the of a number of tourist agents' officials, commanding & battalion of widows of these seventeen beroes. down an anti-Japanese slogan. post- terests and those of the Chinese for publication." ed outside the concession boundary, people.
The Mayor of Rye, Mr. Vidler, is porters and other servants, the If we regret Mr: Ed
It is estimated that the surplus Great Bensation.
are divided up wardes' resigning, we must regret
The disclosure of "the nature of
un postal services for the current credited with a proposal to build tourists
The Supreme Court at Leipzig HEAVY DEFEAT OF YANG yet more the circumstances which
year is over £8,000,000, The houses, to supply a nurse, and pro- platoons, each tourist receiving a have compelled him to resign.. General Booth's letter is all the signatories submit that the first call vide scholarship for the children numbered badge. They are then after a lengthy trial taken in It is the universal feeling that more sensational to-day because the upon the Post Office revenue should and a fortnight's holiday every taken through the customs house camera, has passed sentence of five with remarkable celerity and shepreare penal sarvitude on Captain A naval wireless message received matters cannot remain as they are. Salvation Army communiqué yes be for the provision of a cheap summer for each of the thirty de
herded into a special train, their Lembourn, a Danish officer, who in Hong Kong from the Upper However little they might wish to terday evening merely mentioned
and efficient service, and they point pendants.
Was arrested recently near the This is bitterly opposed by some only personal care being such asall out that Canada has recently decid- Yangtze states that Yang Sen's interfere in China's affairs, the that a letter had been received and
frontier 00 -principal military officials and fami- Powers cannot remain indifferent gave no inkling of the contents, ed to restore imperial penny post of the committee who are co-operat land luggage as they insist upon German-Danish
the communiqué gave, the age, which New Zealand has enjoyed ing with the trustees of the fund, keeping with them. At Caire they charge of espionage A Germin lies, together with a considerable to the crisis that has arisen. The while
text of a telegram from the
are again marshalled in platoons, de and is resented by the widows of
woman typist, who was alleged by number of his troops, have arrived
W General in reply to a message of
the ill-fated lifeboat, crew. The posited in motor cars, and oma the prosecution to have assisted at Ichang. It is reported that
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view of the women is that as the buses, and swiftly carried to their Captain Lembourn, was sentenced Yang Ben has been desively de are told that, at the back of all greetings from the Council, feated by Liu Hsiang,
things, there is a clique of Chinese thank you for your telegram and
money was subscribed by the public hotel, where they proceed to rooms to three years imprisonment. politicians who scheme to undercut fully reciprocate all you say. May
them and find their With the approval of all the signed to éd in equal shares among them.
concerned, the system hitherto ruling and get God guide you and bless you all MOVING YOUTHS FROM THE for their use, it should be distribut according to numbers previously as the Customs into their own hands and your homes.
"We are quite capable of hand luggage already waiting for then Empire Governments for ends, easily imagined. The
ling this money," said one of the ready for unpacking. Departurer the Eastern Associated Telegraph [BRITISH WIRZISH SERVICE,) present plight of the China Mer-
women to me this afternoon, and are carried out with the same system Companies have nominated Sir it should be handed over to us." and precision such as a General of Basil Blackett as chairman, and chants S.N. Co., the attempt to
Brasy, Jan. 9th. The Ministry of Finance has re-use the Provisional Court in order
Many subscribers have written Army Transport might envy, and it the Earl of Clarendon as a direc An outline of the work of the In protesting against the proposed is no uncommon occurrence for astor, of the proposed Communica affirmed the fact that its polies is to get possession of the Sheng
dustrial Transference Board in the scheme and have threatened to de many as five hundred tourists to tions Company. the complete abolition of likin in Kung Pao millions, the confisca
distressed mining areas was given mand the return of their money it arrive at a hotel from which an Dr. J. C. Ferguson's controlling Kiangsu, Chekiang, Aahwei, Kiang. tion of the Chungshing coal mines
RETENTION BY HOOVER.
by Sir John Cadman today. Sir it is not handed to the dependants equal number have departed on the interest in the Sin Wan Pan with ai and Fukien in the course of the in Shantung, the scandalous story
John is one of the leading members One subscriber has offered to sup
which he has been connected since next six months. The practice of of the Chung Shan road in Nan-
NEW CABINET DISCUSSED. of the Board, which was formed by ply funds to enable the dependants tral Europe are once again coming of Chinese bankors Mr. Holling Visitors from Germany and Cen- 1889, has been bought by a group farming out certain taxes will also king, all this but too plainly shows what would become" of the
the Government for the purpose of intake legal action if necessary.
The be discontinued altogether...
Customs if once it were
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] fading suitable employment for un-
to Egypt in considerable numbers, Tong acted as intermediary. * Sick Of All This Talk." lowed to become a political play-
employed workers in a new sphere.
but Americans are the most nume China Press states that the #WASHINGTON, Jan. 9th. Unless these thing.
The Mayor of Rye to-day was in-rous. This is not only because sideration involved is reported to of life. The return of the President- are stopped once and for all,
The greatest problem of the coal-vited to discuss the latest phase in Americans are wealthier than Euro-be $800,000. Nationalism's high hopes of in- Elect, Mr. Hoover, from his tour fields is probably that presented by this delicate situation.. He said peans, but because they have made
Belgrade was en fete to-day on ternal reform and national gran- of South America, has set the poli- the youth population, hundreds of frankly that he would not make any a much greater advance in the or
the occasion of the birthday of the for tea- uplift parties whom have never had an opportu.further statement. "I am sick of ganising deur become a mere empty dream.tically-minded Cabinet making. The Persian Government has ap- We hear rumours of a projected Nothing, however, has been given nity of working since leaving school. all this talk and agitation about chers, etc., thousands of whom come Queen Thanksgiving services were Their pointed a new Minister to Nanking.
out which would suggest real pos- Sir John Cadman states that by the money," he said. "If people to Egypt every year, in addition to held in all churches. It is expected that during this reconstruction loan: indeed, with month arrangements will be made out borrowing, the Disbandment sibilitics. The only certainty ap- means of employment exchanges, will only leave us alone we shall be
and professional men with their tended the Cathedral in state,
pasning through great throngs 1 now being moved from the coal- I met three of the widows of the families and their guide books. for the conclusion of a new treaty ful results. But how will Nanking Minister.
Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mellon were Reids-every week to employment in lifeboat heroes in the cottage of the info of the East affects some spite of the severe cold. The Royal hope to borrow money if and when
was warmly cheered. the impression gets abroad that in conference for several hours other places.
Mrs. Cutting, one of the principal of these tourists with startling re-procession, the Customs, hitherto looked upon yesterday, and it is believed that
was the first He says that throughout the coal sufferers in the disaster, saye & press salts. An American lady who came The occasion was one of some im China's one solid asset, the back they have reached a complete fields there is a chain of unemploy correspondent. They told me that to Unire last year fell madly in love portance since this bone of her credit, are as much open understanding about official rela- ment centres within, cary reach of nothing bad grieved them so much with a street, seller of lemonade public appearance of King Alexan to venal influences as all the resti tions after March ith, when every unemployed boy between since they lost their men as this who the insisted was the reincar der since his political coup a few Already the resignations of Mr. President Coolidge's term of office fourteen and eighteen. During squabble over the money. H.M.S. Magnolis left Teingtao Edwardes must have done consider expires.
1928, nearly 2,000 boys from these It seems to us like a squabble for Weihaiwei on January 9th, on able harm abroad. But if the It is understood further thrt contres have been successfully over the dead." said Mrs. Smith, which day H.M.8. Cumberland left Chinese faction who have been Mr. Melion eagerly accepted Ur, moved.
whose husband 'perished: in the dis Singapore for Penang."
playing off Mr. Maze against him Hoover's request to remain at the The centres are always full and aster. The transport City of Marseilles are permitted to cut between the head of the Treasury, and his are very popular as the boys and
The question of the distribution is due at Hong Kong from Singa two and seize control, then nothing retention in that capacity will be their parents realise that from these the money will be raised at a pore at & p.. on Friday, January can be seen but ruin alike for the welcomed by business men all over centres there radiate many paths meeting of the trustees in Rye Town
Service and China's credit.
the country.
leading to new chances in life.
Hall on Friday,
SEN.
ABOLITION OF LIKIN
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
NANKING, Jan. 10th.
PERSIAN TREATÝ,
(Wah To Yat Peo).
"SHANGHAI, Jan. 10th.
financial interests dependant on the Customs are too great.
al-i
manœuvreR
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Yours affectionately,
BRAMWELL BOUTE.'!
MELLON AND THE TREASURY.
for some time.
· A NEW START IN LIFE.
COALFIELDS.
-
same day.
Cox*
to open Simo-Persian negotiations Conference cannot expect success pears to be Mr. Mellon, the Finazce nearly 700 men, boys and girls are able to manage our own affaire large numbers of retired business Majesties and leading officials at-
between the two nations.
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VESSELS.
11th.
January 9th.
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nation of her dead fance. She days ago, as the result of which the Jugo-Slavian Parliament has offered him a big sum of money to
been suspended. marry her and return with her to her country, but fearing the conse- The Dutch paper Telegraaf de quences the lemonade-seller took her clares that neither the Dutch to the police and was arrested for Government nor the Dutch rubber his pains. He was subsequently re- producers will have anything to do leased and the lady was sent home with the plaus of the banker, Beez
Kloppenburg. in charge of her friends.
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