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U.S. CONSUL OFFERS REVENUE IN HUNAN

TO MEDIATE.

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS AT CHEFOO.

LINE OF RETREAT MADE READY.

[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOE))

Caroo, Feb. 14th. »

Li Chen Nien has withdraw hus forces to the Freswater River,

AND HUPEH.

PROPOSAL BY WUHAN COUNCIL.

CENTRAL AUTHORITIES' REJECTION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S JORNICT.].

NANKING, Feb. 14th.

The Central Political Council yesterday rejected the recent pro

THE HONG

· KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15th, 1929.

CHEN MING SHU

PROTESTS.

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RAILWAY CONTROL IN KWANGTUNG,

MINISTER'S REPLY.

[THEOCON REUTER'S AGENCY.}

NANKING, Feb, 14th. In connection with the decision of the Central Political Council ea January 23th that the administra. tion of the Canton-Kowloon, Can ton-Kankow and Canton-Samshui

THE MOND REPORT REJECTED.

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES OF EMPLOYERS,

CONFERENCE WITH T.U.C.

SUGGESTED.

(THROUGH RACTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Feb. 13th.

The National Confederation of Employers' Organisations and the

SALVATION ARMY STRUGGLE.

·GENERAL BOOTH DEPOSED,

......

MOVING PLEA TO HIGH.

COUNCIL.

(THROUGH REUYER'S ADANGT")

ICE-BREAKERS ON THE THAMES.

ENGLISH RIVERS FROZEN,

BOAT RACE PRACTICE

HELD UP.

(THROUGH REUTER'S JOKNCY.]

NAVAL BUILDING IN JAPAN.

EXTENSION OF HOLIDAY

PROPOSED

ACTION DEPENDS 'ON-

OTHER POWERS.

{{BAOUGH 'REUTER'S AGENCY.)

Toxyo, Feb. 14th. The question of naval construc-

LONDON, Feb. 14th, The keen frost continues over Great Britain, but in London and some other places the bitter caster-tion has bulked largely in the pro-

five miles west of Chefoo, which possl made by the Wuhan Branca Railways be handed over to the Federation of British Industries, of the Army held its new sessionly winds have abated.. At ◊ o'clock ceedings of the Budget Committee.

has been fortified and entrenched

orqssing to the sea.

on both sides from the motor road

Political Council for the establish ment of a special office to super-

Hinistry of Railways, General Chen Hing Shu has telegraphed to Nan to be in the hands of the provincial authoritica replying to Chea Ming Shu, in Sun Fo, the Minister of Radways, cerely hoped that the Kwangtung authorities would do their utmost to support the unification of the

The United States Consul, Mr.vise the collection of revenues being stating that the railways ought Leroy Webber, the doyen of the Consular Body, has offered his ser- longing to the Central Government vices to mediate between the op in Huana and Hupeh. The pro posing parties with a view to avoid- ing bloodshed in the disturbance at posal was turned down as being Chefoo, but hitherto no reply has contrary to the decision reached

been received.

Liu Chen Nien has instructed the Ching Kee Steamship Company to prepare immediately six steamers

at the recent Disbandment Confer-country's administration. He trust ed that the decision of the. Central ence.

Political Council would be faithfully carried out, and the administration

to the Ministry of Railways.«.

The proposal was originally sub

for the transportation of his troops mitted to the Executive Yuan for of the three railwaye handed over

and munitions, il bo is defeated.

Ponglai (Tengchowfu)" capitulated to Shi Shu Chun yesterday and the enemy are now advancing on Fushan against Lia Chien Nien.

Outpost Lina.

state

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approval, and later referred to the Ministry of Finance fer examina.. tion. The latter 'objected on 'the grounds that such measures inter- Naval wireless messages from fere with the unification of the Chiefoo

that the

Third Division has hoisted the white fag country's financial administration and joined up with the Fourth and are contradictory to the deci- Army. This force is now at Pehona, about ten miles south west of sion of the Disbandment Confer Buangshien.

The loyal portion of the Secondence, and accordingly recommended Division at Tengchow has now its rejection.

moved to Fushan, and General Liu Chen Nien is preparing an outpost line some ten miles east of Teng

chow.

General Liu's defences also in-

clude a strong line of trenches with

Owing to the importance of the matter the Executive Yuan referred the case to the Central Political Council, which has now rejected the

barbed wire and field guas extend-proposal. ing from the beach about five miles west of Chefoo to the surrounding bills.

'FENG RESIGNS WAR

MINISTRY.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Feb. 14th. Chinese reports state that Mar. shul Feng Yu Hsiang has resigned from his position na Minister of

War.

THE SINO-JAPANESE BREAKDOWN.

(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY:]

LONDON, Feb. 14th, The Times, in a leader on the breakdown of Sino-Japanese zego tiations, emphasises the deep in terest of Great Britain as a friend of both countries and points out that at present the coming into operation of the new Chinese tariff makes it more than usually desir able that a cordial spirit of mutual accommodation should prevail.

"Whatever may be the cause of the hitch," it concludes, "friends of both countries will hope that the final settlement will not be lag delayed."

No Defaits Collapse.

ام

MADAME SUN YAT SEN.

(Wah Te Eat Pao),

SHANGHAI, Feb. 14th The earlier report that Madame Sun Yat Sen hus returned from Russia is flatly denied by Mr. Ma Sheng, who is in charge of Dr. Sun Yat Sea's obsequies in Peping. He says that Madame Sun is staying in Switzerland.

YELLOW RIVER BRIDGE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]

NANKIND, Feb. 14th. The Ministry of Railways hai been informed that the first through goods train since May 3rd, 1998, possed over the Yellow River Bridge at 8 o'clock this morning, travelling at the rate of 5 miles an hour.

"TREATED LIKE CROOKS

AND SMUGGLERS."

MR. MAXTON ANNOYED.

OSTEND INCIDENT

[THROUGH ELUTER'S AGENCY.]......

LONDON, Feb. 13th. The detention at Ostend in the middle of January of Labour M.P.'s and Mr. Regionid Bridge- man was the subject of questions in the House of Commons to-day.

Sir Austen Chamberlain said that be had not considered it necessary to make representations to the Bel gian Government regarding the de lemtion of Mr. Maxton and Mr. Saklatvala, in view of the fact that However, her return to China the exclusion of aliens is the sover must at least be expected soon, as eign right of every Government. Mr. T. V. Soong, Madame Sun's Mr. Wheatley, who spoke strong. younger brother, is expected to pro-ly on the subject, read the terms ceed to Peping at the end of this of the passport " requiring free month to receive her.

passage for the bearer."

WIRELESS TRAFFIC TO

MANILA.

[THROUGH ZEUTER'S AGENCY.]

which represent practically all the great industries of the country, have rejected the interim raport of

Trade Unions Congress, delegates. the Mond group of employers and

This interim report was drawn up on July 4th last, and it dealt with the general question of indus- trial peace.

Whilst, rejecting the report, the employers' organisations have in vited the General Council of the Trades Union Congress to confer with them on matters of common interest.

The main recommendations of the report were the creation of a National Industrial Council, com- posed equally of employers and representatives Union Congress.

of

the Trades

LONDON, Feb. 13th. Restrained by the High Court from acting upon its previous de cision to depose General Bramwell Booth from the leadership of the Salvation Army, the High Coundl to-day to give the General an op- portunity of affering a defence.

In spite of an impassioned speech by Mr. W. A. Jawitt, K.O., on behalf of General Booth, the High Council condrmed their pro appointed vious decision, and Commissioner E J. Higgins, formerly Chief-of-Star to be the new leader of the Army.

Physical Fitness... Mr. Jowitt addressed the High Council at considerable langth, urging that General Booth should be given time to recover from his illness. On behalf of the General, he offered to leave the choice of a successor to the Council provided General Booth was allowed to re tain the command during his life- time in a slightly modified form

The witnesses called included a number of eminent physicians who testified that "General Booth would be physically fit to take full com mand of the Salvation Army with in a month or t

this morning there were 9 degrees Replying to interpellations as to of frost in central London compar. Whether the Government considered ed with 7 degrees at the same time proposing to the Powers an exten- yesterday, and slight snow was fall- sion of the naval holiday after ing in bright sunlight. There were would depend on the attitude which 1931, the Premier stated "that it 17 degrees of frost during the night the Fowers assumed at the confer Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, ence due to be called that year.

Replying to further questions, however, seems to be the coldest the Navy Minister remarked that. place in the country. The ther Japan was prepared to postpone the construction of substitute vas- mometer there to-day showed sels and prolong the age limit of ground temperature of aix degrees cruisers if other Powers favoured below zero Fahrenheit, or thirty-

the agreement.

eight degrees of frost!

Thames Freasing.

Though the Minister was unable to give definite figures of replace- ment_costs, it may be noted that It is a curious fact that Ireland the Opposition in a recent Diet debate quoted $20,000,000 yen 65 and Spitsbergen are at present required for capital ships and

1931-1932:

warmer than London. Many of the 380,000,000 yen for auxiliaries after rivers in England, including even. the upper Thames, have frozen, and ice-breakers are at work on the letter

river at Oxford. Many sporting wood, and mere shelters are being Mr. Jowitt further read

fixtures have been abandoned owing established for the homeless. from General Booth to the High Council declaring that the Army

to the frost and the University The majority of the country. was faced with the gravest dangers, boatrace practice on the Isis and schools have been closed.

Vienna and urging that all its members

the Cam is held up.

is suffering severely as the result should work together. He also Householders are finding their of burst pipes which have affected opportunity to chief discomfort in the freezing both the water and the gas sup- asked for reshape the Deed of 1904, and of water-pipes. This was the sub-plies.

ject of general complaint to-day. pleaded for time to recover his

From Rome it is reported that the All over London, the Metropoli-heavy snowstorms are holding up health, promising to retire if the improvement in his health did not' tan Water Board are fixing stand-

or delaying seriously all train and meet with the demands of his work pipes in the streets and house-

moter-omnibus services. wives come with buckets 'and kettles and obtain water. from the mains. Thousands of frozen pipes are bursting and causing damage.

Ballot Announced. After a long session, the High

Council this afternoon took

Mond Committee. The Committee, which was set up sixteen months ago, comprises pro- minent representative employers and representatives of the Trades Union Congress, and is presided over by Lord Melchett, formerly Sir Alfred Mood. In its search for the machinery of industrial co-accres ballet, and there was a operation & report was recently adopted lavouring the creation of National Industrial Council, which would bold regular meetings for general consultation on the

The ballot also revealed that four widest questions concerning indus-

Commissioners who originally sup. trial progress, and would have in ported the General, on this oc connection with joint concilia-casion abstained from recording

their votes. tion boards for the prevention of industrial disputes, By an over-

다

Sir Austen said that he had con-whelming majority the Trades. sidered whether the form of the Union Congress in September au passporta abould be modified in cer- fain cases, but he had decided that cepted these proposals. the change, was not desirable.

.....

Employers' Reasons.

The employers organisations which were asked to represent their side on the proposal have now made their reply. The report as it stands is rejected not on account PREMIER BARRACKED IN of any specified objection to the

AUSTRALIA.

. .

UNRULY LABOUR MEMBERS.

GOVERNMENT'S "NARROW

ESCAPE.

Mr. Maxton appealed to Mr. Baldwin to say whether he approv ed of his colleagues in the House SHANGHAI, Feb. 14th.

of Commons being treated on the Chang Ching Kiang on behalf of Continent like crooks and smag- the Reconstruction" Committee, presenting the Nationalist Gorernglers, but the Speaker intervened. ment, and Mr. Scheckien, represent- ing the Radio Corporation of the Philippines, a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America, this morning signed an agreement for exclusive control of wireless traffic Shanghai, Feb, 14th. between Shanghai and Manila. Dr. C. T. Wang, declares that The agreement means that the Sino-Japanese regotiations have no Chinese will take over the wireless collapsed completely, and he hopes traffic to Manila, which hitherto that they will shortly be resumed. was handled through the Koukaza He had a conversation with Mr. Wireless Station in the French Con- Yoshizawa at Shanghai yesterday, cession at Shanghai, The agree the result of which is regarded as ment will be effective for eight not without hope. Private discus years with automatic extensions of sions will be continued over the two years unless previously terminou were raised by the Labcur members in the Assembly to-day problem of the Japanese evacuation | ated.

when Mr. Bruce, the Premier, un successfully invoked the rules of procedure to prevent the Labour Party from moving the publication of the arbitrator' award in the postal workers' dispute, which the Government proposes to disallow on the ground, that the Arbitrator was mistaken and that Parliament ia the faal orbiter.

of Shantung so long as Dr. Wang stays at Shanghai,

GERMAN TREATY.

(Wah Te Yat Pan).

SHANGHAI, Feb. 14th. The German Minister to Chins will return to Peping from Germany next month, according to informa- tion from foreign sources. He will be empowered by the German Gov ernment to open negotiations with the Nanking Government for a new commercial treaty.

RELATIONS WITH ANNAM.

(Woh Tei Tai Pao).

SHANGHAI, Feb. 14th. The Sino-French negotiations will be resumed to-day at Shanghai. Both sides have reached a more propitiatory attitude after à series of meetings in the last few days. especially over the problem of Sino- "Annamite relations.

"PEPING LEGATIONS.

TROTSKY ARRIVES IN

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· CONSTANTINOPLE, VIRTUALLY A PRISONER.

(THROUGH BEUTEE'S AGENCY)]

CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 14th. It is definitely established that Trotsky, using the pseudonym Seibroff, arrived here yesterday in a specially chartered steamer. He was accompanied by his wife and two daughters.

This morning, Trotsky was taken from the ship under escort of three Russian agents to the Soviet Con- sulate, where he is being detained, practically a prisoner. He has municate with anyone outside. been refused permission to com

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENŐT.]

MELBOURNE, Feb. 13th Loud shouts of "Bushrangers are gentlemen compared with

The Government barely escaped defeat. The Labour members ac- cused the Government of seeking to mash this particular award which was against the Government, while insisting that the timber-workers should obey theirs

The vote on the motion was equal, 35 to 35, the Speaker's casting vote saving the Government

proposed council, but because tech- nical difficulties arising out of the constitution of each body are con- sidered to preclude them from tak- ing such a course.

The Times says "The positive effect of the reply is to open the door for the first time to discus sions of any kind with the lead- ing national organisation of trade- unions. This therefore represents an important new departure."

KING BENEFITS BY CHANGE.

STILL VERY WEAK

NEW RAY TREATMENT.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Feb. 14th. It is oficially stated that the King passed a good night, and hie condi- tion continues. satisfactory. The Royal suite consider that the change has already benefitted His Majesty, who is however still very weak. Members of his suite trouble. him only with matters of great im- R.A.F. PILOT RESCUED IN tance, while sustained conversa.

tions are avoided. AFGHANISTAN. **

Although there

from defeat.

ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF A SAFE RETURN TO PESHAWAR

PRESIDENT.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NEW DELHI, Feb. 13th.

VENEZUELAN DESPERADOES

KILLED.

»

It is learned that Flying Officer Davis, one of the Royal Air Force officers, who Was stranded in Afghanistan on the forced landing of one of the big trooping, sero- planes, has been brought safely to Peshawar by air by Flight-Lieut. Hancock.

were

dramatic hush as the result was read out showing that 52 delegates had voted for adjudicating General Booth physically unfit to retain the command of the Army, while only five members voted in hissifying. favour.

Mrs. Booth and her daughter sat in the hall apparently unmoved by the announcement.

The Successor.

The Council then proceeded the election of a successor

and Commisioner E. J. Higgins WAS elected by 49 votes to. 17. The minority votes were all cast for General's sister. Commander Evangeline Booth, the

Three avalanches near Farbiano, buried the railway lines to a depth in the Province of Ancona, have

of 21 feet..:

Soldiers' 'Hardships. “

Skating Everywhere. Skating was general all over the The death of a French soldier British Irica to-day and this is the on sentry-go" is reported from only compensation for the frost Wiesbaden. The French inspect which seems to be steadily intering-ofcer going, his rounde found the man frozen to death. There A number of deaths due to the have been a score of other deaths bitter cold are reported to-day, from the cold in West Germany, while quite a large number of people have been injured by the explosion of, domestic boilers.

The roads in South Wales are practically impassable, and the distressed miners are having an extremely bad time as most of the mining valleys, are snowed up.

At least a hundred motor-cars are embedded in «nöwdrifts round Stranraer, where two marooned trains had to be dug out.

The most extraordinary result of the frost, however, is that the beach at Brighton is covered with

Mrs. Bramwell Booth and herce a circumstance quite unpre daughter, Mrs. Booth-Hellburg, did

cedented in Brighton history- not stay after they had heard the announcement of the deposition, the election of the successor. and were not present, therefore, at

THE CONTINENT. Meanwhile, reports of acute dis tress owing to the Arctic waye Fifty deaths due to the cold oc the Balkans to-day

The sentries of the British Army on the Rhize have been issued with pull-overs and sheep-skin coats.

From Budapest it is learned that the heavy snowfall has com- pletely dislocated traffic, and that coal and food supplies are run- ning short

Wolves have entered the outskirts of towns in Transylvania and de- voured cattle.

The Scheldt at Antwerp is thick ̈ with floating ice, and numerous buoys have been carried away. The Dutch shipping authorities have removed illuminated buoys in their territory and navigation is suspended during the night.

come from everywhere in Europe. Telegrams in Brief.

The announcement of Commis sioner Higgins' election" was wildlycurred in cheered by the Council.

The new leader, with a tremor in his voice, humbly thanked the Council for electing him to "this position of high trust."

while in Germany where the cold had been intense for more than a week, thirty-seven further deaths are"attributed to the frost. borance is now almost front

at The inner harbour Dieppe is frozen.,

The new Japanese Ambassador to London, Mr. Tsuneo Matsudaira, the father-in-law of Prince Chichibu, arrived in London to-day

Mr.

Matsudaira was formerly Ambassador to the United States.

America's Support. Interviewed by Reuter later, Commissioner Higgins said that

The Riviera is under seven the Salvation Army would follow

inches of snow, while even the

A public telephone service between Britain and Poland will be in- the banner unfurled by its Founder rapid flowing Rhone and the with increased life and spirit. lagoons of Venice are freezing. augurated on Friday. Comunica

He expressed the hope that there Many deaths from cold are report- tion will be limited at the outset would be no further legal difficuled from Yugoslavia where a gipsy to calls between subscribers in the ties, but said that if the Deed of family of five has been frozen to London area" and subscribers in 1904 was attacked he must defend death in the woods. Zagreb is Warsaw, but the service will later be

isclated as all the railways are extended in both countries. An American delegation official blocked with snow and the Belgrade Petitions in opposition to six declared that the Salvation Army express is embedded in a snowdrift. Bills promoted by the great railway in the United. States would rally Food supplies are becoming short.

companies of Britain, which ara loyally to the side of the new

The mortuaries at Prague are seeking air transport powers, have General.

crowded with bodies, and it has been lodged by the Society of been necessary to dig graves with Aircraft Constructors and the Im- dynamita.

perial Airways, Limited. The peti tions are also endorsed by the Corporations of provincial cities and towns served by each railway.

it.

THE NEW VATICAN TREATY.

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

ALTERED.

LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP?

"[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE,}

The hospitals in Poland and the Baltic States are overflowing with frost-bite cases, and the Finnish Government has agreed, st the re- quest of the Danish and Swedish Governments, to send up ice breaker to open a channel to the North Sea, though the absence of one ice-breaker is almost certain, to mean the temporary sealing-up of Helsingfors.

RUGBY, Feb. 13th. Replying to questions in the

Ships In Distress. House of Commons, Sir Austen

Calls for assistance have been re- to-day Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary,ceived at Leningrad from a bun several degrees of frost at Bognor, said he had not any oficial indred ships that are lying in a pre. the wind had dropped and the sun formation that the new Vatican shone briliantly, for the first time State intended to apply for mem since his arrival, the King's bed-bership of the League of Nations, room windows were opened.

and it would be quite premature to Luminous ray (artificial sunlight) state the attitude of the British treatment was today applied for Government to an event which was the first time...

so absolutely hypothetical

More Ray Treatment.

{THEOUGH, REUTER'S ADENCY.] (Wah Ter Tat Pan).

BOGOTA, Feb. 13th SHANGHAI, Feb. 14th.

An attempt to assassinate the According to a report from Venezuelan President was made to foreign sources, the Nationalist day, and resulted in a fierce fight Government is contemplating the between a handful of would-be resumption of control over the murdererz and the President's Lieat. Hancock landed to pick up Legation Quarters in Peping. Dr. guards.

the stranded officers, and, on being C. T. Wang, the Minister of Foreign Six men in ambush opened fire surrounded by tribesmen signalled Affairs, has notified M. Oudendijk, on a motor-car in which President accompanying planes not.... to to His Majesty at Buckingham the doyen of the Diplomatic Corpe, Gomez was driving down a seques- descend. that the Nationalist Government is tered road in a suburb of Caracas, Hancock's machine is only cap- prepared to take back the control the capital.

able of accommodating tw, and of the Legation Quarters, and has None of the bullets took effect, Flight-Lieut, Chapman, who was in requested him to make arrango.but the President's escort retaliated, charge of the wrecked macbine, .ments for the purpose.

and killed all six of the attackers will be fetched shortly.

It is oficially announced at Craig weil House, Bognor, that the King has had a good day and that His Majesty's condition continues satis factory.

Doctor Howitt and Doctor Woods, who applied ray therapy treatment

Palace, visited Craigweil House on Wednesday and again administered the treatment. It is learned that the Queen hopes to go to London next week to visit the British In dustries Fair.

could

He did not think he pledge the Government not to take such action as it thought proper as a member of the League.

Sir Austen Chamberlain was ask ed if it had not been made clear that the Pope was not seeking any association with the League.

He replied that he understood, this was 30.

JM.

Sir Auston added that he was unable to say whether the Treaty between the Pope and the King of Italy would necessitate any changes in the diplomatic relations between this country and the Vatican,

carious position ice-bound in the Baltic, and a number of Soviet ice-breakers are departing on a re- lief expedition.

hardships that keep flowing in The numerous stories of winter

from all over the Continent biaks mention of the distressing condi- tion of about 200,000 unemployed in Vienna, where the bitter cold is causing intense suffering among the poorer classes.

Relief Maasuréu. The Austrian Government ic taking ngive, relief measures and is establishing military field kit chens, dispensing free meals twice daily. The bakers have opened free "bread kitchens in the city, while the authorities have increas- ed the distribution of free coal and (Vontinued on next Volumn).

The ballot of the Bolton Master Cotton Spinners Association, fol- lowing the recommendation that the output of the Egyptian section should be reduced by thirty-three. per cent, resulted in support for the Committee. The decision affects 50,000 workers.

The Committee of Experts on Reparatious sat for two hours on. Wednesday morning in Paris. An official communigud issued at the conclusion of the session stated that, in response to the Committee's re- quest, Dr. Schacht and his col submitted observations upon certain longues of the German delegation

points regarding Germany's secno- mic situation as set forth in the recent reports of the Agent-General for Reparations...

President Coolidge, in spite of his objection to the time limit clause. embodied, to-day signed the Bill providing for the construction of Afteen 10,000 ton cruisers and one aircraft carrier. The warships are to be lain down within three years.

It is learned that Prince Hery, the brother of the ex-Kaiser, is seriously ill suffering with cancer of the larynz, a malady which also affected his father.