JAPAN AND CHINA-
AT VARIANCE:
NEGOTIATIONS ON TSINAN
INCIDENT.
TERMS OF SUGGESTED AGREEMENTS.
{Wah Tez Tat Pan).
SHANGHAI, Feb. 13th. The full contents of the draft "agreements proposed by Dr. C. T. Wang and Mr. Yoshizawa have been officially med.
FOREIGNERS SAFE AT TENGCHOW.
WOMEN EVACUATED FROM
EWANCHSIEN
TROOPS APPROACHING
CHEFOO.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Caroo, Feb. 13th. Communications between Hwang. baien and Tengcbowls are severed but it is reliably stated that the situation there is quiet, sa the op-
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1929.
THE DISARMAMENT GOOD NEWS OF THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY
PROBLEM
KING.
NEW PROPOSALS FROM
LONDON.
BEGINS TO SMOKE AGAIN.
WASHINGTON INTERESTED.
[RECTEN'S AMERICAN BERȚICK.}
PRINCE OF WALES' VISIT.
{TAROTCH REUTER'E WENCY.}
PREPARATIONS.
I
LINERS AS FLOATING GRANDSTANDS..
MILLION SPECTATORS.
EXPECTED.
[BRITIAN WTREEESI SEXVICE.1
Ruasy, Feb. 15th.
LIKE A POLAR SUMMER?
CONTINUED FROSTS IN EUROPE.
Telegrams in Brief:
At Thursday's meeting of the Experts Committee on Reparations. in Paris, Herr Melchior, the Ger man sxpert, epoke at length an Germany's financial position and on her taxation.
"
THAMES FREEZING OVER.
As the result of experiments on (BRITISH WIRILERS SERVICE.]
iaulin, a starohlike substance that is found in dahlias, chicory, arti- chokes, and other plants, scientists Loynoy, Feb. 15th.
RUGBY, Feb. 15th. working under the Department of The Duke of York's private secTÉ-
The severe frost, which has now kind of sugar, which has been call- Commerce have discovered a new tary announced at a luncheon' In London that the King has begun to
A statement issued by the Royal prevailed for 190 hours, shows every ed diifructose anhydride, smoke again and is
Aero Club of the general arrange sign of persisting. In London this Viscount Wolmer, -the Assistant now able to menta for the Schnieder Trophy morning the screen temperature Postmaster General, announced in cut up his own food.
race over the Solent next Septem- showing 9 degrees of frost was the the House of Commons that a pro- His Majesty passed a good night, ber indicates that the co-operation same as yesterday at the corremark the inauguration of the air posal was under consideration to of the Air Ministry, the Admiralty It was again very cold it Bognor,
envelope. special stamps or a special air mail and during the night 90 degrees of frost were recorded in the grounds of Craigwell House."
The Japanese" 'draft" "agreement posing troops have already passed ment problem. Such a more on and his condition is lisfactors the Southampton Harbour Board. |sponding hour, but during the night service to India by the issue of
contains four articles:--
(1.) The Chinees Government should apologise for the loss of Japanese lives in the Tainan in
cident.
(2) The Chinese Government should voluntarily dismis General Ho Tin Cho and the "subordinate military officers who were in part responsible for the incident.
(3.). Both Japanese and Chinese Goverments should express their regrets for the incident and, sa both sides have suffered loss of lives and property, compensation be eliminated.
(4). The
en route for Chefoo.
Missionary women have been vacuated" from Hwanghelen, but the men are remaining. Men and women are still at Tengchowfu, and the United States Consul reports. that they are safe.
18 Miles From Chefoo.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Eh. Official circles are most interested in the reports from London that the British Government, may soon make proposals for a new approach to the settlement of the disarma
the part of the British Government is not altogether unexpected in Washington, and it is suggested in the Naval me quarters that Limitation Conference, which will meet in August 1831 in accordance with the Washington Treaty, might be summoned earlier if the other
A Japanese wireless message ron-Govtruments concerned so desired. firms the report of the safety of foreigners at Hwanghsien and Teng- chowfu. Both cities we quiet.
Liu Chen Nien, is still maintain- ing his line on the Freshwater
Chinese Government River, but a moving large quanti should issue an assurance that full ties of ordnance to Huping. Shih protection of Japanese life and pro-shu Chen's forces are estimated to perty in Shaatung will be glar auteed after the Japanese evacua- be twelve miles west of Chefoo, tion of the province, and that the but no fighting is yet reported. anti-Japanese movement through- out China will be suppressed.
China's Suggestions. The Chinese draft agreement proposes that:---
(1.) The Japanese Government should tender its apologies so the Chineze Government.
No Developments. Naval wireless messages. from Chafoo state that the report to the effect that the Third Division has turned against General Liu "Chen Nien is incorrect. The Third Divi- sion is now at Fushan, while the Second Division has arrived at
(2) The Japanese Government Cheloo. should punish General Fukuda.
(3.). The Japanese Government should pay a reasonable compensa tion to China for loss of lives and property in consequence of the incident
As there is at present a wide difference of opinion, so immediate agreent is possible. Dr. Wang will however have another conver sation with Mr. Yoshizawa. next Monday in an attempt to reach a' compromise.
DR. C. T. WANG'S POLICY CRITICISED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
LONDON, Feb. 17th. The Daily Telegraph to-day de- votes its leader to the report that Dr. C. T. Wang proposes to "open negotiations for the retrocession of the Legation Quarter at Peping, and says that it is unhappily char- acteristic of the diplomacy which Dr. Wang at present directs, which seems to go out of itaway, and even to defeat its owa objects,, to assert a position which the world knows to be‘a fiction.
For example, the journal gocs on, nothing is more evidently of
vital inferest to China than the establement of good relations with Japan.
Yet the Tsinanfu negotiations have broken down precisely upon the point of the National Govern- ment's refusal to admit that the Japanese residents in Shantung are ot absolutely protected by its sole guarantee of their security...
KUOMINTANG DELEGATES. (Wah Tez Fat Pao).
LI
SHANOHAI, Fab. 16th.
:.
BRITAIN'S CRUISER
PROGRAMME.
The Prince of Wales, who paid returned today vid Southampton. fying visit to Paris yesterday, and drove from there to Craigwell House to see the King...
Sitting At the Window,"
It was officially stated at Craig weil House, Bognor, on Thursday evening that the King has had fair day.
Although the weather remained cold, there were several hours of sunshine at Bognor and for the first time since his rival there the King sat in a chair at the open windows of his bedroom.
The Queen in the aftertion drove to Goodwood Park and walked in the woods.
LONDON, Feb. 14th." A number of questions were asked in the House of Commons to-day relative to the disclosure that the new cruisers to be laid down in British yards this year will not be 8,000-tonners as originally contem- plated but will be 10,000-tons each. The matter was referred to by the First Lord of the Admirally a few days ago, when he announced EXPERIMENTS WITH that contrary to a report that the cruisers were to be abandoned, ar- rangements were being made for their construction.
The situation is not expected, to
Lieut.-Col Headlam, replying to develop before Sunday or Monday. questions, pointed out that two Arrangements for the concentra-cruisers were dropped from the 1827 tion of foreigners, should the need programme and one from the 1929. arise, have been completed.
programme, but last year, when it
:
BRITISH BATTALIONS IN CHINA.
[REITISH WIRELESS BEVÍCE)
Advice
Ruday, Feb. 14th. have been received in London to the effect that the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guarda, which left Shanghai last month in the .. City of Marseilles, have just passed Aden.
They are due at Sonthampton on February 27th.
The revised distribution of the British battalions in China and War Office plans, provides for a Hong Kong, according to present
garrison of seven, namely, two battalions at Shanghai, two at Tientsin and three at Hong Kong
The Second Wiltshires will join the First Norfolks in Shanghai about end of the February.
WORKERS.
COLOURED LIGHTS AND PRODUCTIVITY.
BRIGHTNESS AND WARMTEL.
Berlin, February 12th (United Press). Potential productivity,
the Commander-in-Chief at Ports it was slightly colder in London mouth, the big shipping companies than on the preceding night. An and seaside resort, on the shores of exposed thermometer registered 23 Using Southampton and every town' the Solent will be forthcoming to degrees of frost. out hitch, and that the crowds are the night. The river was frozen ensure that the race is flown with
Ice gained on the Thames during controlled, transported and fed
Britain holds the trophy as the reover at places below Windsor and, sult of her victory at Venice last although no ice that could impede year, and the British and foreign
Air Ministers and Government aavigation was seen below Walton officials from abroad will be present yesterday, ice blocks of a consider all the competitors and machines at the river just above the tidal waters while the Air Minister will houseable size were to be seen floating in the Calshot seaplane station. the Royal Aero Club of organise that at certain places, along their It is estimated that the cost to at Richmond today. Reports state tion of the race will be between £15,000 and £20,000, and Bir Charles courses some 3 English and Scot that expense. Over 1,000,000 people Wakefield has given £5,000 towards tish rivers are now casted with ice,
course. In order to accommodate of the Severn and the swift running are expected to be around the
These include the upper reaches
some of the immense crowd it is Sper river. proposed to anchor big liners in Southampton Water and the Solent to act as floating grandstanda ......
-SALVATION ARMY
REFORMS.
AUTOCRACY IN MATTERS SPIRITUAL
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE).
"Skating Champion. Skating is now general through- out the country and yesterday the professional skating championship was held at Langay Fen, pear Cambridge, in the presence of 5,000 spectators Donald Pearson won, covering the one and a half miles course in five minutes. The last professional championship was held seventeen years ago
to December 31st last, the gross During the period from April isk receipts from the Port Offcs In-
credit balance in respect of pres perial beam wireless service were estimated at about £358,000. The
ciation or interest on capital, was same period, before charging depre estimated at about £163,000,
Senate has announced its approval The Commerce Committee of the
prisent operating under the con of the sale of thirteen vessels at
Board. trol of the United States Shipping
Forty-three more persons WAINUS evacuated on Thursday from Kabul to Peshawar in four Victoria aero-
sis.. planes. They included British, In- dian, Germans, Turks and Pory
BIRKENHEAD'S NEW" POST.
CHAIRMAN OF BIG TRUST COMPANY.
AMERICAN CONTROL.
[THOUGH REUTER'S AGENTY]
LONDON, Feb. 14th The New York Utility and Light public utility systems in Corporation, one of the principal United States, announces that it the
HuGay, Feb. 15th. It is understood that General Higgins, the new leader of the
A ground temperature of seven Salvation Army, is consulting with degrees above zero „Fahrenheit, or the principal officers with a view to twenty-five degrees of frest was rehas acquired the entire ordinary making such reforms in the con-gistered at Greenwich Observatory shares of the Greater London and stitution of the Army as will obviate what has been described na
Counties Trust, Limited, thus in- on Thursday morning.
directly controlling ita principal | subsidiaries.
These subsidiaries include no electric power companies.
the autocracy of ite command. At This equals the lowest point ever the same time the new General has.
became clear that an agreement both as to quality and quantity, of made it clear that ho regards him recorded there, the last occasion:
upon a maximum of thirteen 10,000 factory and other employees who ton cruisers could not be obtained work under artificial light indifect with other Powers, the Admiralty ly influenced by the strength and decided to proceed with a 10,000-ton in some instances by the colour of ship deferred from 1927 and e the light, W. Ruffer, pechotech- 10,000-ton ship deferred from 1998,nical engineer of Berlin, hus démon. The Admiralty were, therefore, strated in a series of experiments cutting out the two 8,000-ton ships just er opleted. in that programme and deferring the commencement of these ships til the end of the financial year.
TI
AMERICA IMPATIENT FOR CRUISERS.
+
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14th. President Coolidge has sent to Congress a recommendation for the appropriation of G.812,370,000 to begin the construction of the 10,000 ton cruisers authorised by the
The sun mentioned is little more than half the amount that had been proposed by the Navy Depart
The First Bedfords and Hert-Naval Bill, which he signed st
White House yesterday. fords will leave. Hong Kong on that date and the Queens will leave on March 2nd, leaving as garrison at Hong Kong, the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, the 1st Battalion Somersets, and one
Indian battalion.
The Tientsin garrison will re main as now, consisting of the End Battalion Border Regiment and the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots...
TO RECEIVE DUKE OF
GLOUCESTER.
COMMITTEE HEADED BY
PRINCE CHICHIBU.
{TYLOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
Torvo, Feb. 15th. The reception committee of the Carter mission has been officially appointed. It will be beaded by Reince Chichibu and includes Baron Hayashi, Viscount Keimin, Mr.
A number of resolutions were Matsudaira, Mr. Iyemasa, Mr. passed at yesterday's meeting of the Nanking State Council, mostly Tokugawa, who is shortly returning in connection with preparations for from Sydney, Major-General Haru- abige Ninomiya and Rear-Admiral
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VESSELS.
the Third Kuomintang National Delegate Conference. One resolu Ominato. tion lays down that each of the special Kuomintang branches, which have recently been established, should hold an election among its members for two candidates, onc of whom will be selected by the Central Kuomintang as delegate to the Conference.
In Kwangtung,
Li
ment.
If the recommendation meets with the approval. of Congress, these funds will be available dur ing the next fiscal year beginning on July 7th, 1929.
Delay Opposed.
In spite of the recommendation of President Coolidge, it is learn ed that the Naval Appropriations Committee of the Senate is "far
from willing to wait even until July of this year.
The Committee hat already pass eds resolution, it is stated, pri viding for funds to enable the construction of the warships au thorised to be started immediately
Five of the new cruisers are to be laid down before July this year, and five more before July, 1930, This is in accordanes with the time Coolidge protested. clause against which President
BYE-ELECTION AT WANSBECK... LABOUR RETAIN SEAT.
[BRITISH WIRELESS AREVICE. ]
Singapore for Hong Kong at 2. The transport Dorsetihire left
RUGBY, Feb. 14th. p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14th, and
The bye-election at Wansbeck, is due to arrive here at 4 pm on
which was caused by the death of
·Feb. 19th.
the Labour member, Mr. G. H All passengers and troops, from the Somersetshire are Warne, resulted as follows now on board the Dorsetshire, Mr. Shield (Lab.)
►
His tea were conducted in. & Berlin factory employing ten women, whom he spent weeks in observing as they worked under lights of varying strength Their reaction to the different degrees of lighting, measured in termis of accuracy, production speed, atten- tiveness and the effects on their syesight, was noted and compared with results obtained in earlier teste,
self as an autocrat in all matters spiritual
EMPLOYERS AND THE T.U.C.
INVITATION TO BE ACCEPTED. (BRITISH WIBELENS BERVICE]
RUGBY, Feb. 15th.
In labour circles although regret
being the great frost of February, fewer than seven important British
1808, when the river Thames was last blocked with ice.
Thames Blocked. With Ids.
It seems likely that the Thames will shortly be in the same con- dition as it was thirty-four years ago.
....
The upper reaches are frozen as far as Windsor. and ice already
is expressed at the rejection by the stretches from bank to bank in some employers organisations of the places. Launches, barges and locks Mand Turner report, it is believed are completely frozen un. ́ ́ that the Council of the Trades Union Congress will without hesitation accept the invitation ex- teaded for a joint conference.
LADY HAYES MARRIOTT
ILL.
RECENT RETIREMENT FROM
MALAYA.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
From these observation Ruffer- concluded that the output or per- formance of a person doing the roughest kind of work was 62 per cent. of maximum capacity when he worked under a light equal in strength to one Lax (meanrement of candle-power). Using the same performance basis, he found that
LONDON, Feb. 14th. a person doing somewhat fier work Lady Hayes Marriott is lying needed ten Lux, one employed at dangerously ill with pneumonia, very fine tasks required 200, and a and is unable to reply to the many person whose performance depend-sympathisers en ed almost entirely on vimal ac death. curacy would have to have light of 1,000 Lux strength.
Yellow Most Effective, Raffer's experiments showed that the use of 4,000 to 3,000 Lux: does not produce fatigue any quicker than does lighting of 100 Lar strength, while performance is in creased under the stronger lights
her husband's
Sir Hayes Marriott, who retired from the Malayan Civil Service at the end of 1828, died in England only a few days ago.
DEATH OF BISHOP, OF LEWES.
A SHORT ILLNESS.
Bishop of Lewes, the Right Rover- The death is announced of the end William Champion Streatfield, after a very short illness. Until his consecration only a fortnight ago, the mte Bishop had been since 1911. Vicar of Eastbourne and Rural Dean, and Prebendary and Canon. of Chichester.
At the same time, ventilation is part most important, Brighter lights, par. tieularly when gas is used, will make room warmer than usual, and this increase in temperature may be expected to have an advens effect the quality of perfomance. Therefore ventilation of a working room must be regulated 10 as to keep the temperature at a normal level, it the best results from the change in fighting are to be obtain great cross country runner, being
In his younger days he was ed, Ruffer warned,
Secretary of the Cambidge Univer Colour does not have such an inity Hare and Hounds in 1885 and portant bearing on labour perform running against Oxford in that ance as does the strength of Eight year.
it was found after other experi ments in which he used blus, green, yellow, red and daylight con- Generally, however, it was found junction with lighting from three that the reaction of the workers to
from thre to 180 Iur in strength.
the different colours depended more The results of these tests showed or less on the temperament of the that to all practical purpose there l'individual worker is no direct relation betwem per formance and the colour of the 20,208 light in rooms which are generally 9,612 hghted. In dark rooms, where in 5,183dividual lights are used for each worker, yellow is the most effective 10,780 colour, followed by green, red, day. light and blue. Where individual At the last General Election, lights are used together with there was a straight fight between general lighting the physiological Mr. Warne and Mrs. H. Middleton benents are overshadowed by the (Conservative), the former polling psychological effects, 21,150 and the latter 18,875.
Uontinued as foot of next column:)
Labour majority
It has been decided to ap point Messrs. Chen Chai Tong, H.M.S. Dartmouth left Ports- Mr. M. Pender (Cons.) Wen Fan, Cheng Ming Stru, Lin mouth on Feb. 14th for Gibraltar Mr. H. A. Briggs (Lib.) Wa Koi, Hsu Ching Tong, Feng en rute to China. She is due to Chuk Wes, Ma Hung Fuen, Chu arrive in Hong Kong on April 8th. Cha Wah and Huang Kwei Luk as H.MS. Sirdar arrived at Wahu executive members of the Kwang-on Feb. 14th. tang Provincial Kuomintang.
New appointments for the Canton City Kuomintang have also been made.
H.M.B. Sepoy sails for Shanghai on Saturday, Feb. 16th, on which date H.ME. Cornflower sails for Shanghai and Weihaiwe
Recently 93 large industrial plants in Chicago improved their lighting systems at an average cost of five per cent. of the payroll with the result that their production was in creased by 15 per cent.
One extraordinary result of the freezing of the higher reaches of the river. is that very little water is flowing down to London At Richmond, the water is so low that one could paddle across!
If the attean stopped running, said a Thames Conservancy official to-day, the danger of a completely frozen river would become much greater. Extraordinary precautions are being taken by the Thame Con- servancy to keep the river free from ice. Every available man is engag ed in breaking up the ice and ice breakers are busy,
At many" points big blocks of ice have formed across the river. These float down the river, get jammed at various points, and then freeze to gether,
By reason of the purchase, the New York company has also ac quired a substantial interest in several other British power pauler
Lord Birkenhead stated over the telephone to Renter that he had accepted the chairmanship of the, Greater London and Counties Trust Limited.
In a public statement, Lord Bir kenhead says that the organisation socists himself is British, though with which he has decided to Associated with the Clarke interests in the United States, and will re mais British,
The finance has been found hitherto
almost entirely in America, he adds, but the broad policy of the Trust is to obtain money in the cheapest market, and it is within its province to obtain funds in Britain if it is possible to do so more cheaply thanelze where
The Adriatic Railway permanent way is submerged in snow, varying between six and twenty-four inches. Violent mow blizzards are raging in the Gulf of Lyons, the storms being so fierce that many vessels have been prevented from making port at Marseilles.
Food Scares..
In France generally, conditions Above Iffley Lock, at Oxford, and are very severe. All outdoor sports a above Beading Bridge, the Thames on the Riviera have been cancelled, is already blocked with ice in this and at Nice and such places the way, while at Henley the river has price of foodstuffs has risen by.. frozen right across at two points. thirty-per cent owing to the dif
Scotch Express Delayed:ficulty of transportedy illustrated by what happened to the Paris have been opened to prevent The severity of the weather is The lockgates on the Seine below night Scotch express from London the accumulation of ice-blocks, which arrived at Glasgow two hours behind scheduled time: Near Beat bock Summit, the big engine came to an abrupt standstill and when the driver dismounted he frozen startled to find the water gauge
Narigation on the Scheldt at Ant werp has been suspended at night- time in consequence of the carrying away of numerous buoys by big ice floës.
ANTARCTIC EXPLORER'S
VISIT.
Two relief engines were despatch- to the front and rear of the trainDouglas Mawson, has reached Lon ed to the scene and were attached The distinguished explorer, Bir respectively. They commenced to don from Adelaide, where he is take the express up the Summit but Professor of geology and minera hallway up the leading locomotive logy at the University, to discuss stopped as the result of the steam a project for a new expedition to ejector becoming frozen. Another the Antarctic which would leave engine had to be requisitioned.
Hobart, Tasmania, at the begin Baltic Paris". ning of the 1928-30, summer. He German aeroplanes are now en says that the antarctic summer. gaged in reconnoitring the Lange closely resembles the weather now landsbelt in the Baltic, and already being experienced in Europe with they have dropped large quantities the addition of occasional blizzardır. of food supplies on the decks of the in which the high winds are more numerous ice-bound vessels, whose unpleasant than the snow. The crews have signalled that they are proposed expedition would be imin acute distress.A
Mawan led the Australian Antarctac sat purely scientific. Sit Douglas expedition of 1911-11 and was also one of Bir Ernest Shackleton companions in the 1907 Antarctic expedition:
It sooms only logical to expect that brighter lighting, would prove labour performance inseratch as man has been working for thou sands of years under daylight, which has a strength of from 8,000 ta 10,000 Luz."
All water traffic has ceased along the Danube owing to the front while the River Bave is similarly affected,
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