"NO NEED FOR ANY THE TSINAN AFFAIR
ANXIETY."
a
UNDERSTANDING REACHED WITH PENG.
AMICABLE SETTLEMENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HANKOW, April 8. The uneasiness caused by Feng Yu Hsiang's reported movements to the border has been allayed by declaration from authoritative sources that there is no need for anxiety.
It is likely that the Central Gov- ernment will recompense Feng lor the military expenses incurred in preparing to assist them in the Wuhan campaign, and whatever mis- understandings may have arisen will
be amicably settled in this manner.
SETTLEMENT.
JAPAN PERTURBED.
CHINA'S PLANS NOT YET SUBMITTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Toxro. April a
Some perturbation is felt in Government circles owing to the failure of the Nationalist Commis- sioner, Mr. Tsai (Tsie' Shih Chieh 1) to submit a plan for the mainten ance of peace and order in Tsinan after the Japanese withdrawal.
A plan was promised by April 3, but has not yet been presented, Hence it is feared it may be neces sary to postpone the withdrawal, though it is still hoped it will be presented in time to avoid upset ting present arrangements.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929.
BOMB OUTRAGE IN
DELHI.
THROWN INTO LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
MEMBERS INJURED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
NEW DELHI, April 8. Two bomber were thrown into the Legislative Assembly at the moment when Mr. Patel, President of the Assembly rose to give a ruling. One fell near the Finance Member, Sir George Schuster. Several persons were injured.
time, and panic prevailed.
The House was crowded at the
Two men, found in possession of bombs and pistols, were arrested.
Sir George Schuster and the other injured were rushed to hospital.
ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE.
NEW RUSSIAN PROPOSALS CRITICIZED.
"THE SPIDER AND THE FLY."
„[TKROVOM REUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, April 7.
opinions is
If the consensus of newspaper azy criterion, then Great Britain is not likely to rise immediately to the luscious-looking bait dangled before the British Trade Delegation now touring Russia by M. Pintakoff, Governor of the 'Soviet State Bank.
He has declared that the Soviet could give orders amounting to $150,000,000 to British during the next five years, or that industry the Soviet's import-rogramme
to invest in various concessions and viding that British capital agreed contract operations, and could get Cormal diplomatic relations rester. Led."
SCHNEIDER TROPHY MR. LLOYD GEORGE
CONTEST.
ON HIS SCHEME.
BRITISH TEAM IN STRICT
TRAINING. -
HOW IT WOULD BE FINANCED.
AMAZING SPEEDS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
LONDON, April 7. The British
Schneider trophy transferred from team will be. Felixstowe to Calshot (Southamp ton Water), next week-end to enter on the final stage of their training. For the first two months pilots will continue flying in the older type of high-speed supermarino Napier S3 seaplanes which are capable of just expected that by June special secret over 300 miles an hour, but it is machines, which are being built for ber 7, will be ready. the international race on Septem
A
£200.000.000 LOAN,
7
POLISH DICTATOR'S OUTBURST...
STARTLING ACCUSATIONS.
CORRUPTION IN THE DIET.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
Warsaw, April 7,
Mr. Lloyd George, at a luncheon at the House of Commons, answer- ed questions relating to the schemes An amazing diatribe by Marshal of work by which, in accordance Pilsudsky, Dictator of Poland, has with" his pledge, the
Liberals been published in the Polish new. would, if returned to power, reduce papers. It deals with the action of unemployment to "normal propor, the Diet in impeaching the Finance tions" in a single year without Minister. M. Czechowigz, for ex adding to taxation.
cceding the estimates.
A Liberal "Yellow Book," entitled "We Can Conquer Unemployment (Cassell, ed.), gives the Liberal war average of unemployment as schemes in detail. It gives the pre-
4.7 per cent., or about 500,000, Mr. Lloyd George stated in answer to a question that this figure was to
The bombs were thrown just after could be raised to £200,000,000, pro over 48 miles in length has been be regarded as "normal" for the
the Trades Dispute Bill had been passed, despite the opposition of the Congress Party,
Sir John Simon's Escape.
Apparently the Nationalists are How Suspicions Arose.
finding a dificulty in carrying out HANKOW, April 7. It is understood that the move. their promise of a guarantee of ments of Feng Yu Hsiang are caus. adequate. protection for Japanese ing grave suspicion on the part of lives and property, as they have
Sir John Simon was in the Pre. other prominent leaders in China.
Troops in Feng Ye Hsiang's army shall remove all its nationals tem-
informally suggested that Japaneident's Gallery at the time." A pamphlet headed. "The were mobilised recently, ostensibly to assist the Central Government in porarily from Tsieah and places dustan Socialist Republican Army the campaign against the Kwangsi❘ along the railway to Tsingtao. and signed Balraj (Honorary faction in Hankow. These troops The Japanese Government, how-Chief), was thrown into the cham have been moving towards the boundary between the north of ever, insists that this request is in.ber with the bombs. Hupch province and the south of compatible with Nanking's promise Honan province.
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Hankow having been entered by Chiang Kai Shek, the assistance of Feng Yu Hsiang in this direction is no longer required.
Accordingly, Chiang Kai Shek has despatched a delegate to Feng Yu Hsiang to enquire from him as to the reasons for the movements of his troops and to come to a mutual, understanding if possible."
"Pardons Oxered.
contained in the recent agreement.
Another Version..
A Wah Tez Yat "Pao message states that General Sun Liang Cheng has telegraphed to the Cer. tral Government saying that his troops took over the garrisoning of Tainan on Sunday, and that the Japanese troops
will withdraw. within three days.
It is added, however, that the In the meantime Chiang Kai Shek Japanese merchants and residents has telegraphed to Hu Tsung Too at Tainan have addressed a cable to Baron Tanaka "requesting the and Tao Chun,
the ex-Wuhan Japanese Government to postpone leaders, whose whereabouts have not the withdrawal of the Japanese been divulged, stating that since the Kwangsi Party are the real traitors; troops. to the country hè beats no animosity against Hu and Tao personally.
He offers them a pardon, provided they will place their armies under control of the Central Government, and further states that should ther personally wish to pursue their stu-. dies abroad the Government will be pleased to render them every ansist-)
ance.
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INDIAN AIR MAIL SERVICE.
SECOND PLANE LEAVES CROYDON.
P
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE
LONDON, April 7. India received her first air mail
Government Captures Yochow.
from England yesterday. Thus the SHANGHAI, April 8, Admiral Chen Shao Kuan wiring ed at Croydon a week earlier is no great enterprise which was launch to Nanking states that Government longer merely an ambitious scheme, Naval forces captured Yochow, in but an accomplished fact. Hunan, yesterday morning, the
The last stage was a flight of 610 enemy retreating to Western Hupek miles, from the Persian Gulf to under a heavy bombardment.
He adds that he expects that Karachi., where the acroplane ar- Fighting will be ended very contrived only three hours late, despite as the rebels are offering no resist- its having Igen delayed by a sand-
storm after aving Baghdad.
ance."
Hankow reports are that, Chiang
Kai Shek plans to return to Nau "king on April 15, as his presence in Hankow is no longer necessary.".
MUPING STILL HOLDS OUT.
The second service of the weekly
air mail to India began yesterday
Croydon carried a larger quantity morning. The machine which left
of mail than the machine which started on March 30. There was also more freight.
To-day, the first air mail to Eng- land left Karachi and by it travel led Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey
'ATTACKERS' HEAVY LOSSES. Salmond, the Air Officer Command-
CHEFOO HOSPITALS
CROWDED.
[TEROCON REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
CHEFOO, April 8..
Lin Chen Nien is still holding | Muping, City in spite of constant onslaughts, and is inflicting serious casualties
Charg Tsung Chang's forces.
upon
Hospitals here are already filled,
up and daily there are new arrivals,
of wounded, adding to the conges- tion.
ing in India, and Viscount Chef- wynd, Chairman of the "Imperial Airways. London is due to be reached next Sunday.
REPARATIONS.
BERLIN PRESS NOT SO ENTHUSIASTIC.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
BERLIN, April 7.
This would mean a huge loan from British bankers, backed by the
British Government.
The Morning Post recalls what the Hin-spider told the By." The Daily "Telegraph, urges the same careful and the Time states it is anxious scrutiny of guarantees as in 1994, to see Angio-Soviet trade prosper; but that the bringing about of apon other conditions. -
A quadrangular course of just turning points being Cowes, Selsey, decided upon for the contest, the near Ryde, and Hayling Island.
This course will have to be: traversed Ave times.
purposes of his pledge..
Ex-Premier's Views,
M. Pilsudaky says he considers: himself personally responsible is chief of the Cabinet, for exceeding
he proceeds to accuse the deputies the so-called budgetary law, and
of the first Diet of high treason in war time for having paid for espion: age against the army,
He adds': In the second Diet, which was ball composed of de.. puties of the first Dict the deputies.
The committee responsible for the became accustomed to an atmos world speed
It has been agreed to attack the Liberal schemes claims that its pro-phere of such widespread corrup
record niter
the posals provide for the direct ab tion that sometimes the vote of a Schneider trophy race, which it is sorption of 566,000 hoped will be was at a speed of
additional deputy did not cost more than 29' not less than 320 miles an hour. workers within a year.
shillings: also that one of the Flight-Lieutenant D'Arcy Greig
Mr. Lloyd George, in answer to
ableat ministers had compared the one of the supermarine Napier. S attained a speed of 3101 miles with questions by a Press representative Diet to a Zoo inhabited by mail- type of seaplanes, and it is antici-
at the luncheon, said:..
cious monkeys who did not even pated that the new craft will attain employment to normal in a year.
Our guarantee is to reduce un- try to appear human.""
M. Pilsudsky declares that the an hour on a straight course.
To reduce abnormal" figures is not enough. Even the be flogged in the yard of the Diet; normal pre-war figures were far too and should. I become Prime Minis high, and we intend to reduce these ter I declare openly that, the State piso.
Tribunal will not dare to meet."
:
The names of the arrested mer i normal diplomatic relations dépends a maximum of 348 or even 360 miles This we can do, but we intend to followers of some deputies should
are Butuke Swaradutt and Bhagat Singh. They are said to have con fessed their guilt to the police. The police immediately locked the Council House, and prevented all movements of visitors. The Chamber presented an awful spectacle.
Mr. Patel has adjourned' the 'As sembly until April 11. “
Serious Injuries,
LATER.
George, Schuster,
The injured persons include "Sir Sir Bamanjee Dalal. Hessra. Raghvendraram and Shankara, also Mr. S. N. Boy,
Deputy Secretary of the Indian Central Committee, who was sitting in the officers' allery. Sir Bamanjce| Dalal is seriously hurt.
'HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH,
IMPROVEMENT CONTINUES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
LONDON, April 7
The King has passed a good night. The weather at Bognor to day was sunny and warm and His Majesty went into the grounds of Craigweil House soon after break- fast,
Dr. Howitt and Dr... Woods ap- plied diathermy to the King at Craigweil House for the first time
this afternoon.
"THE MERCY KILLER."
WIFE SHOT OUT OF "PITY.
"THE RIGHT TO TAKE LIFE."
Mr. James Edwin Kirkbride, aged forty-five, a former deputy prosecuting attorney, because of his despondency and because his sick wife, fearing she was going in sane, pleaded with him to put her out of her misery, shot and killed her in the bedroom of their home, and with the same revolver ended
his own life.
Three of the Government Benches THE TASMANIAN FLOODS. Boulder, Colorado, where it took were destroyed,
Much-Disputed Ealing. The ruling which Mr. Patel was about to deliver when the outrage reserved ruling on the question s occurred in the Assembly was his to whether the Public Safety Bill debate should be postponed till after the Meerut Conspiracy trials, (Mr. Patel's decision to reserve his ruling on this question precipitated an up- roar in the Assembly last Friday)
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FRONTIER TROUBLE
IN INDIA.
"AFGHAN INTRIGUES.
DRASTIC ACTION MAY BE NECESSARY.
(THROUGH REÜTER'S AGINGY.]
NEW DELHI, April 7. An official communique has just been issued dealing with Afghan efforts to embroil Indian frontier tribes in their civil war, emphasis ing that measures have been taken by the Government of India to maintain neutrality:
Enquiries indicate
that the
£1,000,000 DAMAGE.
(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]
do more.
the
"Mr. Churchill's raid on Road Fund was a ghastly blunder, but there is still enough left in the fund to guarantee a loan for the great improvements which we aug- gest
POISON GAS IN WARFARE.
GERMANY TO RENOUNCE ITS
USD.
Germany, which was the first country to make use of poison ga in warfare, solemnly announced that she would never do so again,
"It is suggested that if the Liberal plan is carried through, and is successful in reducing un employment to normal, the nation will he faced when the work is completed, with at least as large an unemployed army as now exists. I disagree. World trade is con- stantly, increasing, and there is no when Dr. Stressmann, her Foreign reason why, when work on our Minister, informed the Council of schemes is completed, Great Britain the League that Germany was going should not have won for herself a to ratify the protocol prohibiting larger share of that trade than she the use of poison gas in war.
now has.?
..
The tragedy, which has been call ed, that of "the mercy killer," has caused a sensation in the city of place, particularly in view of the social prominence of the parties The first section of the "Yellow
Roads and Bridges. concerned, and the question it raises anew in dual form of the right to take life.
M. Zaleski, the Polish Foreign Minister, announced that Poland would also sign the protocol.
Book" proposes ű £140,000,000 Big Nations Yet to Biga. roads and bridges scheme, made 1 Many nations have already sign- up as follows:- Trunk roads,ed the protocol. France, however, Written Explanations, HOBART, April 7.
£42,000,000; ring roads, round has made a reservation that al- The death toll in the foods now
"There was no servant sleeping in
towns, £20,000,000; rural roads, though she will not begin it she numbers 23. The waters are sub the house at the time, and the £30,000,000; reconstruction of holda herself free to retaliate if
£37,000,000; London siding, enabling limited restoration tragedy was not discovered until bridges,
others use gas on her. of road transport.
the following afternoon, when a schemes, £18,000,000. This would Many bridges have been destroyfriend gained entry into the house employ 350,000 men.
and the damage is estimated at explanations of his action. He left and found Mr. Kirkbride's written £1,000,000.
A motor lorry, full of children, aix unusual letters in which he summed up his life and endeavour ereshed through a damaged bridge ed in a tragic soul confession to on the Gavler River, age the
justify his deed.
occupants were killed, including six members of
one family, of whom only one escaped.
The number missing in the Brisel mine disaster is now given as 14
not 97,
FAMOUS NATURALIST
DEAD.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
BALE April. 7. The death is announced of the naturalist and ethnographer, Paul Sarasin, who was famous for his researches in the Sunda Strait, Crylon.
"We have bad rich, füll and happy lives for the most part and NOW it seems to be close to the shadows," he wrote in a long note to his friend. Coroner Low.
"She begs and pleads to be per-1 mitted to die aake me continuously to give her something to end it all, and it is surely hell on earth for us both.
Note to M Wife,
The same envelope containing the Tetter to the coroner enclosed a short note addressed to his wife, as if she would be alive at the time the envelope was opened. It ran as follows: "Sweetheart, it is cruel in one way, but it is what you longed and prayed for, and I cannot bear to go alone and leave
grace in years to come, nor can I bear to leave you now alone in you anguish."
the increasing income of the Road Fund, is suggested to finance these schemes. In five years' time re ceipts from present motor taxation are estimated at £35,000,000, and it is suggested that land values, erent- ed by public improvements, pro- vide a copious source of revenue" which should be very, generously
A £200,000,000 loan, secured on
drawn upon."
The second section deals with housing. Detailed plans for hous ing are given, and are estimated to absorb 60,000 workers.
Numbers employed under other schernes would be:-Telephone de- velopment, 80,000; electrical de velopment, 62,000; land drainage, 30,000; London passenger transport, 24,000.
THE BANK'S NEW COMPTROLLER.
authorities in India are increasing DEATH CHASE ON A ROOF. you in distress, anguish, and dis- OFFICIAL WHO SIGNS THE
ly disturbed at the persistent efforts of various factions in Afghanistan. to draw in auch tribesmen in their' civil war.
Manifestos to British Mohmands and Afridis, calling upon them to join in the fighting. have been Beized, and it is rumoured that similar appeals were circulated among the Waziris and Mahauds.
Energetic efforts are being made to trace the disturbing agencies, and it would not be surprising it the Government of India resorted
It is semi-oficially stated that the At a low estimate Chang's casual. optimism in the Paria Press with tine in the attack on Muping are regard to the Reparations negotia 1,500 men. Chang states his deter- tions is in no-wise shared by the mination to remain on the Muping German delegates. front until the city capitulates. Paris correspondents of Berlin Last Friday Liz Chen Nien secreted newspapers unanimously declare goldiers in evacuated houses outside that the Reparations problem is the city walls, and met Chang's next still far from being solved.
The Tageblatt correspondent de onslaught with a rain of machine i gun fire, causing casualties of clares that the demands of the several hundred. Consequently creditors far exceed what Germany to drastic action. Chung has razed all houses surround is able to pay and mast, therefore, be considered unacceptable to Ger ing the city walls.
many, Chang On the Retreat?
Correspondents are According to the Nam Chung that a great deal of blame for the Fao, Chang Tsung Chang requested possible failure of the conference Chang Hsueh Liang lately to allow will rest with the United States his troops to retreat to Manchuris owing to its refusal to authorise but was refused, Chang Tsung the United States delegate, Mr. Chang has decided to request Owen Young, to negotiate also with Chang Tao Hsiang to allow his regard to the debt of the Allies. troops to retreat to Kirin.
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CHINA AND BURMA.
THE FRONTIER QUESTION.
(Wah Tar Fat Poo).
J
YOUNG POLICEMAN'S FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT. The pursuit of a man suspected of burglary acrose London roofs, led to the death of a policeman,
A burglar alarm was, heard in the early hours in a tailor's shop at Westminster Bridge-road, and after the shop had been surrounded by police a man was seen on the roof Police Constable David Ford, who went in chase, crossed the roods of leur shops and then slipped, fall ing forty feet through a skylight., He died in hospital from his in-
of opinion MORE TROUBLE IN LAHORE. juries a few hours later. He had
HINDENBURG ILL.
SEVERE INFLUENZA ATTACK.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NASKING, April 8.
BERLIN, April 7. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs It has just been announced that has communicated with the British President Hindenburg has been Minister to the effect that the seriously ill-during the whole week, Government is ready to negotiato suffering from influence with gas with Britain regarding, the drawing tric complications. He is now. de of a line of demarcation between clared to be out of danger but is China and Burma.
confined to the house.
POLICE CALLED OUT.
100 DEMONSTRATORS. INJURED.
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.)-
LAHORE, April 7.
been in the police force only six months.
A man was detained by the police.
Mr. Kirkbride, explaining his own despondency to the coroner, wrote thus:
"Loss of a beloved wife, loss of a nice home which she tried so hard to make a happy one loss of a job all because of silly asinine politics; loss of practice twenty years accumulated; loss of equili brium, poise, and serenity by virtue thereof; failing sight, on- coming deafness and an old age childless, alone and comfortless.""
RAF.
'BULLDOG,"
172-MILES-AN-HOUR AEROPLANE.
TO DEFEND LONDON.
An aeroplane which, it is 'con- sidered, will be one of the most effective weapons so far devised for
£1 NOTES...
cashier, has been appointed comp
Mr. C. P. Mahon, the chief troller of the Bank of England in succession to Sir E. M. Harvey.
Neither Great Britain nor the United States has signed the pro-
tocol, although both are signatories of the Washingtoni Pact which went only part of the way and amounted,: in effect, to little more than a pique hope that there would not be re- course to gas fighting.
Poison gas was first used in war fare by the Germans on the front north of Ypres on April 22, 1918, when chlorine gas was released in a cloud from cylinders. In Decem ber 1913 chlorine was replaced by phosgene gas a compound of. chlorine and carbon monoxide. The. British first used gas at Loos on September 25, 1915.
R.A.F. PETROL FOR PRIVATE CARS.
AIRCRAFT MILKED.".
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General, Bir Malcolm' G. Ramsay, on the Air Services Appropriation Account for the
other losses amounting to £35,481 year ended March 31, 1928, given details of storei deficiencies, and
Those due to theft, fraud, arson, Mr. Mabon's signature appears or gross negligence totalled £8,292. on the new £1 and 10s. notes issued
The report refers to a court of cupies the place in the bottom propriation of petrol at a home by the Bank of England, and oc:inquiry which investigated misap-. right-hand corner occupied by the station. The report states: signature of the Secretary of the
Treasury on the old "Fishers.". said practically to defy forgery, Mr. Mahon, whose signature is was appointed, chief cashier in 1925. He was comparatively young to occupy that position.
Sir Ernest M. Harvey, his pre- decessor in the comptrollership, re tired on pensión on November 6, and was appointed a director in succession to the late Mr. C. G. Arbuthnot,
Sir Ernest, who has been in the service of the Bank of England since 1885, worked his way up to the position of comptroller, to. He and Sir Gordon Nairne are be- which he was appointed in 1925.
MR. BALDWIN'S, OPTIMISM.
Given peace and security, I am On the occasion of the funeral of confident that this country is in Rejpal, in spite of the authorities sight of a period of real pros- the aerial defence of the country who, fearing communal tension, perity," Mr. Baldwin says, in a has been adopted na a night fighter lieved to be the only officials of the had prohibited processions this message to Lord Scone, the Conser-by the Royal Air Force. weck, a crowd formed a procession vative candidate in the North The machine, the Bristol Bull Bank of England to be placed on with an empty bier
Lanark by-election.
dog" climbs with auch rapidity the directorate. After an address by the local I am, however, equally con- that it can attain in 12 minutes Congress Secretary the Police, fident that disaster will result if height of 20,000ft., and maintain a mounted and on foot, held up the nt this junctare we embark on spoed of. 172 miles an hour. procession and the hier was broken, hazardous experiments which have Squadrons of "Bulldogs," their The crowd, refusing to disperse, always resulted in a failure, and pilots wearing electrically-lented the Police charged with batons, if we subject our industries to the high-altitude clothing and being and over 100 persons were injured intolerable burdens of taxation provided with a special form of Armoured cars are now patrolling which the Socialists would impose oxygen-breathing: apparatus, are to the area and quiet prevails.
upon them."
be stationed round London..
The court found that there had been thefts in bulk by Air Force.. personnel, and that petty thefts, such as filling of private cars, had been prevalent; that irregu- larities took place at the petrol dumps, where artificial surpluses had been created by letting petrol run back when aircraft were being filled, and by airmen sign- ing for more petrol than they received, at, the fight sheds, by milking" aircraft, and at the mechanical transport hangat, where a bulk supply of petrol should not have been stored.
The court was unable to ascer tain the quantity of petrol lost to the public through the irregu larities, but expressed the opinion. that there had been a steady, and probably & considerable loss over" an extended period.
upon the publication of a big Chang, Hench Liang has.recently
Chang Hsueh Liang is embarking morning newspaper at Shanghai. dispatched delegates to Yen Ha The capital will be over a million Shan with a view to forming a new dollars. Among the promoters are alliance. The delegates state that Dr. C. C. Wa, Que Tai Chi, Chang the results of the interview was Chi and Fang Peng Jen.
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