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LI TSUNG JEN- RESIGNS.

CUTS LOOSE FROM CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.

TROUBLE UNLIKELY.

THROUGH EXCTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, March 10th. To clarily his attitude towards

the Hunan situation which has arisen consequent upon the dismissal of General Lu Ti Ping by the Wuhan Branch Political Council, General Li Tsung Jen, the chairman of the Council, yesterday telegraphed to Nanking his resignation from all his substantive concurrent posts in the "Central Government, as well as his position as Chairman of the Wuhan Council, "

His Reasona

In his telegram of resignation, General Li Tsung Jen says he has been faithfully observing the in- struction of the Central authorities in the hope of facilitating the early completion of the mission of the national revolution.

"Now that Nanking proposes the abolition of the Divisional Political Councils and the Hendquarters of the Fourth Group Army, it is átting that I should conclude my duties as chairman of the Wuhan Divisional Council and Commander of the Fourth Group Army.

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BRITISH CAPITAL FIRST.

TOO MUCH AMERICA.

SIR HUGO HIRST REPLIES TO CRITICS.

(taxoven RKUTER'S AGENCY.)

ךך ךי

LONDON, March 11th. Sir Hugo Hirst, in reply to the American committee of shareholders in the British General Electric Co., asserts that the fact that Americans hold sixty per cent. of the company's shares is likely to have a damaging effect from a trading point of view.

He declares that his Board view ed with grave alarma the steady diminution in the number of British shareholders.

It is convinced that its action is

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MARCH 12th, 1929,

INSURRECTOS BEATEN.

REBEL SOLDIERS CHANGE SIDES.

THE MEXICAN TANGLE.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

"OH! TO BE IN ENGLAND."

ARCTIC DAYS OVER.

THREATENED FLOODS

AVERTED.

(THROUGH KALTER'S' AGENCY.]

MEXICO CITY, March 11th. It is officially announced that in their first encounter, Government forces, led by ex-President General Calles defeated the rebels under Geners! Urbalejo at Cõnitas.

The Government declares that the rebels changed sides when they learned that Urbalejo was noted. Bahting for, but against the

Peports from Cologne state that Government.. General

sun has assisted ice-breakers Urbatejo

and the use of, dynamite in avert escaped with a guard of only thirtying a catastrophe. The milder weather on the lowershine has

near the frontier. resulted in the breaking up of masses of ice which were packed

men.

in the best interests of the pro- the rebels is that the southern half The only favourable report from prietors, and conducive to the earn-of Lower California has joined ing of maximum profit. ?«

An Explanation.

Sir Hugo Hirst also stated that the protest of the American share- holdere was being made under a complete misunderstanding.

The new issue was being made to the British public, and not as apparently supposed, exclusive to the British shareholders of the O.E.C.

them.

ti

.NEW ZEALAND 'QUAKE.

RAILWAY LINE BADLY DAMAGED.

[THROUGH EBUTER'S AGENCY.]

WELLINGTON, N.Z.. Mar. 10th. A severe earthquake has occurred affecting the whole of the Province were felt at Wellington, and Christ-

"I beg also to be relieved of my No discrimination was being position as a Member of the State practised as alleged. No preof Canterbury. Minor shocks only Council so that I may have comference, says Sir Hugo, is being

given to any class of shareholders.

plete rest.

"As regards the Hunan develop- ments, while I was not there at the time of the affair, I am informed "that it was an emergency measure taken only as a matter of precau- tion.

Troops Moving.

"I now understand that there are extensive troop movement up the Yangtsze.

"At this time when the Com munists are eagerly waiting for an opportunity to stage an uprising it behaves the authorities to guard against being utilised by them."

Prior to the despatch of General Li Tsung Jen's telegram, Reuter understands. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, in the course of a personal letter to General Li Teung Jan, re- lative to the dismissal of Lu T Ping, said

The Nation's Welfare." "Since your

departure from Wuhan, no responsible official has been guiding the authorities there, The long distance separating the Central authorities, from Wuhan

[It may be mentioned that the re- cent announcement of the issue (which has not yet been made) stated that the new shares would he styled "British Shares" not holdable by any for eigner or any Corporation con- trolled by foreigners:]

Ordinary

NEW ELECTION ISSUE.

REGENCY BILL MAY BE PROMOTED.

(THROUGH, BEUTRE'S AGENCY.]-

LONDON, March 11th. It is understood that the Cabinet is consulting its legal advisers regarding the constitutional issue raised in connection with the forth coming dissolution of Parliament in case His Majesty the King has insufficiently recovered to under- take the heavy duties connected with quent developments

church.

The centre of the disturbance was at Arthur's Pass where the railway line has been damaged. Trafic, however, is likely to be resumed to morrow,

Practically every chimney in "the village of Arthur's Pasa has been damaged, but fortunately no-one ap- pears to have been injured.

EPSTEIN MODEL IN PRISON.

EMBARRASSING END TO A TRIP TO FRANCE.

Four London Bohemians, includ- ing Miss Betty May, one of Epateia's famous models, and Mr.. Edgell Rickword, the poet, were arrested in Dieppe one Sunday night, detained by the French police until Monday morning, and returned to London the following

renders direct control ineffective, the dissolution; and possible subseda nervous strain of this sur

Even your own orders have carried no force there...

As a precaution and for the sake of maintaining dignity, the Central Government has been forced te mobilize its troops. What the Central Government is aiming at is non-interference with the adminis tration.

"For the general welfare of the people and of the nation and for the realisation of the programme of the Kuomintang, the Central Govern ment will not resort lightly to war! As long as the dignity of the Gov- ernment remains unimpaired every- thing else be satisfactorily. settled.

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FORTY DELEGATES IN NANKING.

(oh Te Tat Pao).

NANKING, March 11th.

It is pointed out that the present Council of State is not empowered to dissolve Parliament.

It is believed that the Government is considering the contingency of promoting a Regency Bill.

Opinion is hardening that the General Election will be arranged to take place at the end of May.

THOUSANDS VISIT DUTCH

EXHIBITION.

PRICELESS WORKS ON VIEW.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Ruan, March 10th. The exhibition of Dutch art,

The

MUSSOLINI S STATES FORTY-EIGHT HOUR

HIS CASE.

A REVIEW OF HIS BUSY REGIME.

WORKING FOR ITALY,

(THROUGH LETTER'S AGENOV...]

AGREEMENT.

-GREAT BRITAIN ASKS. FOR

REVISION.

PAYING BACK WAR DEBTS.

DELIBERATIONS OF EXPERTS.

SCHEME IN DETAIL.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}

Ruosy, March 10th.

The Committee of Experts on Reparations hare issued a Note which outlines a tentative echemo

basis.

LEGAL AMBIGUITY,

STILOUGH RIOTER'E AGENCY.}

GENEVA, March 11th. Lopes, March 11th.

Roui, March 10th. Great Britain

At a meeting of the governing and Europe

"Legislative work, the adaptation, generally are now revelling in the control and the greation of new body of the International Labour mild heat wave as a contrast to re-institutions in Italy has been only Organisation, the Minister of for the establishment of a Bank for cent Arctic conditions..

part of my work. I have granted Labour, Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, international payment to deal with There has been no rain, and the 60,000 audiences, and I have in- expounded Great Britain's reasons reparations, with a view to putting serious floods which were previous terested myself in 1,887,119 ques. for not ratifying the Washington the matter on a peace-time business. ly apprehended have not materialistions referring to Italian citizens forty-eight hour week Convention.

He said that Great Britain has that have reached to through my

Emphasis is laid on the purely alway's favoured the principles tentative nature of the plan which private secretaries.”

Thus spoke Signor Mussolini, the underlying the convention, both in after further examination is subject Italian Dictator, who received a theory and in practice. He also to rejection in part or in whole.. wild ovation on attending the Royal declared that British industries, with very few exceptions, have

The Experts, however, have been Opera House to-night.

The audience

more than actually conformed to the Washing impressed with the belief that to 4,000, including the majority of ton principles..

achieve a final settlement, with Mussolini's Cabinet, and four bun- Sir Arthur emphasised“ the which duty the committee is charg- dred General Election candidates, fundamental danger of ambiguityed, it will be necessary to do away in international law, in so far as with a great part of the temporary Signor Mussolini, reviewing the each nation is able to apply its war-time machinery that was creat unlikely that the river will flood work of his regime, expressed the own interpretation. The submised to collect reparations and tơ”.

machinery.

the

The floes have moved seaward be- "fore the snow waters from the

mountains and the ice from the upper reaches have begun appre-and all the Prefects, clably to move. It is, therefore.

to any serious extent,

THE KING.

ENJOYS SPRING WEATHER.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICK)

да

permanent peacetime a

Now Machinery.

opinion that the terrorism of Fassion of ambiguities to the Bubstitute cism has quite faded compared with Permanent Court of International formar and contemporary ter Justice was a remedy almost worse

than the disease. roristas.

He further contended that these He said that a special tribunal ambiguities warranted the govern for the defence of the State had ne-ing body patting forward the Coa-substitution of financial for poli- quitted four thousand out of 5,000 tried.

As regards foreign policy, Signor Mussolini said that Italy desired peace, but was prepared to defend her interests in any part of the

RoGay, March 10th. After a good night, the King rose early to-day to enjoy another perfect spring-like day, with warmworld.

sunshine.

By being at Craigweil House," he avoided the thick mist which hung over London throughout the day.

ANOTHER JIX".. COMEDY.

LETTER TO VICTOR.

PANDEMONIUM AMONG

M.P.'S.

UPROAR OVER THE MINERS.

"HE IS A LIAR,"

vention for revision.

"BURIED ALIVE" FOR 25 YEARS.

"GERMAN MURDERER'S

LONG INCARCERA- TION.

SHOULD HE BE PARDONED?

Hamburg (U.B.)-Public-spirited Mr. David Kirkwood, the play-citizens and leading prison officials. boy of Clydeside, spitting on his of Hamburg have for years been hands and squaring up at Colonel trying to win a pardon for Theodor Howard-Bury across the gulf re- Weiglin, who rext April will" cele THE NIGHT CLUB KING HE presented by the floor of the Housebrate" the 25th anniversary of his with Mr. Wheatley and other incarceration in the Fuhlsbuettel Ciydesiders pulling him down to prison. Thus far the campaign has his seat by his jacket this was the resulted only in the commutation of comic sight the House of Commons Weiglin's sentence from life impri recently enjoyed during a debate sonment to a 40-year term. on the coal question.

DEPORTED.

The notoriously kindly heart of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, and guardian, under D.O.R.A, of British morals, has involved him in yet another amus ing situation.

There was any amount of uproar, most of it provoked by Mr. Kirk wood, and Mr. Churchill treated M. Victor Perosino, the famous him in the light vein by holding Victor of the once famous Chez Vic-up both hands in mock appeal, prising development of a week-end tor Club in Grafton-street, who when Mr. Kirkwood thundered at trip to Dieppe for a quiet holiday was deported suddenly by order of him: Mussolint in action!" was so great that Mr. Rickword the Home Secretary last April, has The pandemonium raged for ten was suffering from physical col-since opened a flourishing and minutes. lapse. Artists' models are made of fashionable establishment in Paris. sterner stuff, and Miss Betty May, He wrote to the Home Secretary known to her intimates as

the informing him of the fact, and Tiger Woman," suffered consider inviting him, whenever he was in ably less than her companions. Paris, to patronise him.

Sir William replied warmly on Home Ofice notepaper, so as to give his reply proper official dig nity.

Jolly Week-end.......

It was unfortunate that when the four decided to go over to Dieppe for a jolly week-end they omitted

to take enough money with them. He expressed his pleasure at They stayed at an hotel which hearing that Victor was succeeding so well, thanked him for his in vitation to call, and promised that whenever he was in Paris again he would honour him with his patronage.

was next door to the police station, never dreaming that they would have to exchange the comfort of the hotel for the neighbouring eatab lishment.

Trouble threw its shadow over the group on the Sunday evening, when they suddenly realised, as

they sat at dinner, that cash in

which in the last few weeks attract ed "290,000 visitors to Burlington hand amounted to next to nothing Prominent Government officials House. London, closed yesterday. at Nanking are busy preparing for Sixty per cent. of the exhibits The proprietress of the hotel was the 3rd National Kuomintang Con came from English collections, while called, the situation explained to ference. More than forty repre- the Dutch authorities leat many her, and she was asked to cash a sentatives from the various pro- unique and priceless works from cheque for ten pounds Madame vinces have arrived in the Capital. galleries in Rotterdam, The Hague became wildly excited, words flow: The members of the presiding and Amsterdam. These were escorted from her like a cascade, and committee of the Conference will cd by a warship to the mouth of the then she went next door. vary from seven to eleven. It is Thames, and in a les days the war- probable that Hu Han Min. Tan ship will return to ensure their safe Yen Kai, Sun Fo, Li Shih Tseng, arrival in Holland. Thai Yuen Pei, Chang Ching. Kiang Many, beautiful works were also and Wu Taz Eui will be appointed. sent by collectors in the United

The number of representatives to Statce and elsewhere the Conference will be three hun- dred and fifty-six. The proceedings will commence when over half of them are present.

AMICABLE SETTLEMENT

DESIRED.

(Wal Tar Fat l'ão),

SHANGHAI, March 11th.

A few seconds later the chief of

the Dieppe police, complete with most of his staff, invaded the hotel and advanced menacingly on. the visitors.

Explanations by the four Bohemians, who now began to feel like a gang of international crooks, were of no avail. So the poet, the MARSHAL LI TSAI HSIN IN artist model, and their two com

SHANGHAI.

panions, an artist and his wife, were marched out of the hotel to the police station.

(THROUGH TEUTIE'S AGENCY.]

- SHANGHAI, March 11th.

Marshal Li Tsai Hain arrived It is reported that Marshal Feng this afternoon from Canton

"Rather Florce."

Naturally Victor is proud of the letter, and delights in showing it

use

to his patrons. sentative asked Sir William Joyn When a Sunday Express repre-

did not think that in the circum- son Hicks by telephone whether be

stances it was indiscreet to Home Office notepaper, Sir Wil liam replied:

I do not think so. When Victor wrote to me. I considered that it would be a kindly thought if I accepted his invitation. After all, I do not want to ruin the man for life, although I was responsible for bis deportation. "If Victor is carrying on legitimate business in Paris I sec no reason why I should not use bis restaurant if his food is as good as any other place."""

I Am Willing to Help."

Shortage of Coal Commodore King, the Minister for Mines, had stated that there is

Lately, the campaign has been renewed with a twofold object. The free city's senate has been ask ed not only to aid in liberating Weiglin but also to reform the laws concerning the punishment of con- victed persons as well as those governing the extension of pardons: These laws, it has been asserted, are antedated and often toad, to hinder rather than help the sâmînis. tration of justice.

In Weiglin's case, the reform & shortage of coal for export, due-seekers have pointed out, & more to the increased demand; that ships modern and humane law would have are held up awaiting cargoes in resulted in his receiving only five, South Wales and on the Tyne; that or at most ten years' sentence, pits will reopen if the demand con- While they do not deny the fact of tinues; and that the weekly output the murder for which he was con- of coal is already 500,000 tons victed, they contend that the life greater than in October. "It is sentence was unnecessarily and un- encouraging," he added, "to know justly" barsh, that there is this increased de- mand,"

them

failed to consider certain extenuat

New machinery may, be needed in itself to handle the great new inter- by reparations and war debts The national movement of funds created

tical machinery, should, it is believ ed, transfer the liquidation of Ger

any's International obligations from the realm of political discus sion to ordinary forms of business.

The primary function of such an institution would be to act as Trustee, receiving from Germany such annuities as may be arranged, and disbursing them among the creditor nations.

More Co-operation.

The new bank would be, in no sense, super-bank to exercise dominating influence over the exist ing institutions.

The authors of the suggestion be- lieve that its operations would tend to strengthen the co-operation that already has been developed between the central banks, and which has been of such marked service in restoring the gold standard through- out the world and in other ways. stabilising financial conditions.

It would supplement, rather than duplicate, existing institutions and it would assist rather than direct

To Help Everyone.

would help both the debtor and the It is claimed that the scheme creditor countries, that it would be fon-political international and free from dominating financial relation ship and would act as a clearing- house and assist in the stabilisation of exchanges.

On its directorate would be only repute, with advisory committees to men of experience and financial supplement their efforts, and its offices would probably be in one of the smaller countries. The discus signs of the Committee next week are intended to clarify the project and to the enable the Committee to decide whether to proceed further with the plan or whether to post pone its consideration.

HUGE BOULDER SMASHES TRAIN.

·TRAGEDY.

Effect of Harah Laws. They declare it was never proved Colonel Howard-Bury naked that the murder was premeditated, "Is it not a fact that in South adding that the evidence indicated Wales mines are ready to open and Weiglin was provoked into commit. need 2,000 colliers and cannot getting the crime and that the jury FOUR KILLED IN MOUNTAIN

sinuation against the miners, and, moderate penalty. They also feel Mr. Mardy Jones, from South ing circumstances which normally Wales, asked if this was not an in- would have resulted in 5 more as if a hive had been overturned, that in his youth he was the vie the Socialist benches became a tim of social forces beyond his con seething turmoil. They raised a trol and that since his imprison roar of protest. Half a dozen ment his conduct has been irre- members jumped up with angry proachable, and for these reasons his case should now be given special shouts and gesticulations.

consideration.

He wants to make good, and abuse. I am always willing to help any

"Don't Lecture -Us! '7.

I'll

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

CONSTANTINOPLE,, March 10th. Four people were killed and cleven Beriously injured near Adabazar, in Anatolia, during the night when a huge boulder hurtled down the mountainside and crash- ed into a passing train.:

The engine was smashed smithereens, and several coaches capsized.

TROTSKY KEEPING

QUIET.

GRANTED MORE FREEDOM [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY.}

CONSTANTINOPLE, March 10th Trotsky, with his wife and son, has been allowed to leave the Soviet Consulate

They are now living at a hotel, tain complete reserve and not to. organise any demonstrations.

Weiglin, now a trusty" of the The Speaker tried to placate highest rank, having free access to Mr. Kirkwood: "Don't you lec:ed a somewhat sardonic and bitter then. A reply came in a roar from all sections of the prison, has adopt ture us "after he was insulted us like that." Then, brandishing his attitude toward buganity and life. fist at Colonel Howard Bury, he though he takes his prison duties stoically enough. He told a recent shouted :." He is a liar. He knows visitor that on April 7th I will he is a liar. There you are.

celebrate a most sorrowful jubilee." not "withdraw. He's aTMliar."'Put.

His quarter of a century of cell that in your pipe and smoke it.” life he described. as "25 years of Conservatives protested at all this being buried alive, five years of which I have spent as a cigar Mr. Clynes interpreted the maker, 13 years as a bookbinder, "It seems amusing now, but I one who wants to do that. That colonel's words a meaning that three years as a tinker, nine months Betty May to a Daily Express re felt rather fierce then," said Miss is why I wrote to him"

Are you going to Paris soon miners were refraining from as a yardworker, 17 months as an presentative ra

Stand the press representative naked bimcepting work

No, not it all," shouted Con accountant and the last two years Trotsky having undertaken to maint "No," he replied, "I don't servatives. "We were taken to a horribly gloomy little room with bars over

think so.!

"When you go will you call on the window. Here were about twenty gendarmes with their chief, Victor 1

"Well, no," said Sir William. and the atmosphere of the ice" I might if I am anywhere near grew worse as the night erept on towards dawn...

his restaurant."?"

Victor, who is reputed to know CHU TUNG FENG SHOT.

"half

the secrets of London Society," was deported by direct (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

order of the Home Secretary, with- out the usual application to a Natives of Hunaz at Nanking, in- cluding members of the Hunan Bal..

TIENTSIK, March 11th.

magistrate, after his club had been vation Association, numbering over. Chu Tung Feng, formerly Direc-"The telegram was written in raided and closed. He was fined a thousand, marched on the 10th to tor of Avintion, for the Anfu the police station, and was sent £200 for breaking the drinking the Nu ma Government Head Party, was assassinated on Batur off. "At 3 a.m. the chief of Dieppe | Iawa" zo geen

He

Yu Haiang wishes for an amicable ia staying with Chu Chao Nien;

settlement of the Hunan dispute, the Counsellor for the Foreign and ways that even if conflict even Office. tuates, he will nat involve himself

in it.

General Ho Ying Ching, discuss ing the matter, said that the pres tige of the Central Party must not, be lowered, but it has no intention. to deal with the situation by mili tary force.

ASSASSINATED TIENTSIN.

"After hours of argument with the police we convinced them that a telegram to a friend in London would bring money within an hour

We Paid! -

as a bath attendant." Mr. Churchill intervened.

The Story of the Crime." "Control the Chancellor of the When he was sixteen, Weiglin one Exchequer, Mr. Speaker, at once," day took to the streets because he roared Mr. Kirkwood with such dared not face his father's wrath peremptoriness that the House hurst after having spent on sweets 50 Coming in the afternoon and not in into laughter. "This is the dieta-pfennigs which had been given him the morning as he had been re- torship, he continued. "You to buy a leather girdle. At first quented, Weiglin was upbraided by won't dictate to us, if you were the young Theodor subsisted on the lottery official. Churchill fifty times over the revenues garnered from pan- The upbraiding led to words and promise from Mr. Churchill that not produce even a living wage, he to the testimony at the subsequent The row ended suddenly with a handling, but finding that this did the words to blows, and, according Commodore King would make a turned to netty thievery. In time, trial, before the youth actually careful and sincere answer on however, he became a ragpicker koow what he was about ho bad this important denne

and when he entered his twenties picked up a hatchet and struck the A moment later. Mr. Kirkwood he was a full-fledgedrags and eld official on the head, fracturing the tarten, onking Tent the Hanan day morning at his residence in the police must have satisfied himself Four months later he was given convulst the House with laughter, iron" dealer for led skulletin was tried for mir den ne situation be dealt with. They were Japanese Concession,

that we were not crooks, aid al- a special permit by the Home Some one naked a question about It was shortly after. received personally by Mr. Koo The assassin gained admittance lowed me to return to the hotel. Office to return to England for a controlling slippery roads Mr. birthday that he was called one attempted murder, being sentenced Ying Fan, who promised to convey by pretending that he had a message where he kept us company and week, & concession which was Kirkwood solemnly asked if the day to the home of a lottery col to life imprisonment on the fret their representations to Marahal from General Chang Trung Chang, drank to our bright eyes several described at the time an “an an Transport Minister would "control lector, to haul away a pile of refuse, charge and to five years on the Chiang Kai Shek

and then shot Cha dead."

times. We paid for the drinks !" - precedented step.”.

slippery Chancellore."

"(Continued at foot of next column) second."

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