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FENG LOYAL TO NANKING.

WAITING FOR ORDERS,

TROOPS MAY GO TO SHANTUNG.

(THOUGH RRUTXE'S AGENCY.]

HAYXON, April 11.

UNEASINESS IN TSINAN.

JAPANESE RESIDENTS

ALARMED,

WOMEN TO LEAVE.

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(THROUGH HEUTER'8^AGENCY.]

PEPING, April 11:

News from Tainan is that despite assurances by the Japanese Consul that full protection would be so-

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL

FRANCONIA RUNS AMOK.

THE DELHI BOMB OUTRAGE.

FATAL COLLISION IN SHANGHAI,

CONDEMNATION IN THE

ASSEMBLY.

JAPANESE BOAT DAMAGED. THE PRESIDENT'S POWERS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ACENCY.]

The

SHANGHAI, April 10. Cunard Steamship Co.'s

12, 1929.

“WET" AMERICAN

LINERS.

MEDICINAL LIQUOR ' TO BE ALLOWED.

LEGAL AUTHORITY,

..

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.],

NEW YORK, April 11. The sailing of the "Leviathan

ELECTIONEERING BEGINS!

UP-TO-DATE METHODS.

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INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN BY ALL PARTIES.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}'

Telegrams in Brief

It is learned that His Majesty the King has approved of the ap pointment of General Dawes as the United States Ambassador to Lon dos.

Prince Purachatra, the Minister of Communications of Siam, has left Paris for Berlin.

M. Mironescu, the Rumanian Foreign Minister, has arrived in London. A representative of Siz

(THROCOH RECTER'S AGENCY.]

NEW DELHI, April 11. The Legislative Assembly reyesterday under the flag of the his sending of delegates by a tele- corded them after the withdrawal RM.S. Franconia (of 20,000 tons), assembled to-day, when Mr. Patel United States Lines Incorporated, has opened in real earnest, and the Austen Chamberlain met him at gram reiterating his loyalty to the of Japanese troops, the Japanese under Commander E T. Britten,uled that the discussion on the to whom the liner has been sold by electorate may expect to be bom. Victoria station.

Feng Yu Halang has followed up

evacuate all

rezidents, at a meeting, decided by RD., R.N.R., when leaving the Government at Nanking, and stata large majority to Coy that he is at present waiting women and children to Tsingtao China Merchants. S.N. Co.'s lower

next week.

for further orders.

Ma Fu Hsiang, Feng's peace delegate, is returning northward to-day.

For those unable to afford the expense this entails, the Residents Association has provided $8,000 for travelling, and 87,000 for living expenses in Tsingtao for month..

one

Garrisoning Shantung?

It is believed that the uneasi- A Wah Tas Fat Pao message

Dese is caused by the alleged says that, with the sanction of the failure of the Chinese authorities Central Government, Marsnal Feng

to deliver the programme of their Yu Hsiang has detailed over 60,000ntentions for the preservation of troops to garrison Shantung, under

peace and order in Tsinan alter the direction of Sun Liang Cheng, chairman of the Provincial Govern - ment of Shantung.

Troops commanded by Fang Chin Wu, Han Fu Cha and Shih Yu San, statiored in Hupeh along the Peking-Hankow Railway were de- tailed to Shantung on April 9. Feng's troops in other localities will also proceed to Shantung.

MARTIAL LAW REPEALED

IN WUHAN.

(Wah Tz Fat Pau).

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SHANGHAI, April 11 The Wuhan Government is again under civilian control-the officials having been nominated by Nan- king, Martial law was superseded by the ordinary regime on the sth. inst.

Chiang Kai Shek is returning to Nanking with his troops or, April

15.

MARSHAL LI TSAI HSIN.

(Wah Tu Yat Pao).

The Hankow Incidant.

wharf for Chinwangtao, grounded with her bows.

The liner, 819 feet long, swung across the Whangpoo River and just cleared the Italian cruiser Libis. but fouled the cruiser's stern buoy, also the moorings and hull of the Japanese sa Shunteen Maru.

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Lighters Demolished.

Public Safety Bill was out of order til after the Meerut Conspiracy trisis.

He then read a message from the Viceroy, who will address the

House.

Outrage Condemned, t Sir Georgs Schuster (the Finance Member, who was previously re-

LosDos, April 19. The General Election campaign

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the United States Shipping Board, barded with political orstory fur Mr. Calvin Coolidge; the ex-Pre- marked the official restoration of the next seven weeks, in the course sident, has been appointed a Diree. liquor selling to American ships in of which, it is estimated, at least tor of the New York Life Insurance the Transatlantic trade,

95,000 meetings will be held.

Company, in succession to the late ten Since 1923

Caited States

The rival parties are making ure Mr. Myron Herrick, the U.S. Am Government-owned liners on the

of every modern device' for reach-bassader in Paris. dry," European ran have been under the mandate of the Shipping ing the electors, and the "Big The Olympic Games Committee Board, but all this has been Push" has already begun with the has chosen Lake Placid, «in New abolished by an order of Mr. Joseph Shecdy, the Vice-President use of wireless broadcasting, cinema York State, as the venue of the next

the Leviathan can serve passengers "medicinal liquor" passing the 12-mile Emit.

The Shunteen Maru's moorings Ported injured), occupied a seat of the new line. The order is that shows and "talkies" and the motor Olympic Winter Games.

with

and Lady. Simon were present in the Japanese withdrawal, the departed and became entangled within the Assembly and Sir John livery of which was promised for the Franconia's balance rudder.

Japanese vessel's upper struc The spamaged and she pushed the President's gallery when, before April 3..

over a large mooring buoy which giving his ruling on the Public then bobbed up immediately under Safety Bill debate, Mr. Patel, sub- two cargo lighters, smashing the two craft to smithereens, and pre-mitted a resolution recording the crews (totalling borrer and indignation of the cipitating their twenty) into the river.

Most of these unfortunate peopls Assembly at the dastardly outrage sent to their staterooms, or with

NARKING, April 1). The informal conversations on the Hankow and Nanking incidents continued this morning between the representatives of Dr. C. T. Wang and the Japanese Minister, Mr. Yoshizawa

It is reported that only one point is left unsettled, and a settlement is expected shortly.

TO SEARCH SHIPS AT-

WOOSUNG.

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CHINESE AUTHORITIES'

رلا

DECISION.

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].

NANKING, April 13. The State Council of the National Government of China has instruct- ed the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Kiangsu province to inform the Senior Consul in Shangy SHANGHAI, April 11. hai that all vessels bound for As a plague has been recently Shanghai, irrespective of nation- prevalent in Tangshan, Marshal Lality, must be subject to search by Tsui Hsin requested the Chics of responsible representatives of the to be allowed to local (Chinese) civil and military the "Guards live elsewhere. His request was authorities on entering Woosung receded to and be is now living in the anchorage below Shanghai.

The object of this order, it is the city, together with Wu Taz

stated, is to prevent counter Fuí.

revolutionaries or communists from taking passage in foreign steamers for Shanghai,"

MONGOLIAN GOVERNOR

MURDERED. ALLEGED WORK OF

RUSSIANS.

According to the Wah Te Tat

Pao, the Central Government has

JAPANESE TROOPS IN MANCHURIA.

een investigatire complaint that DESIGNS ON THE RAILWAY:

advices are that about

number of young Japanese have

Private

were saved but four were picked up of Monday last. unconscious and succumbed later.

Liner Re-moored..

The Franconia was skilfully re- moored alongside the China Mer- chants lower wharf. Her rudder has been cleared by divers and she sails for Chinwangtao in North China, to-morrow morning.

MRS. GANN'S VICTORY. DIPLOMATS IN SOLEMN CONCLAVE.

MR. GANN NOT DISCUSSED! IRECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

Mr. Patel deeply, sympathised with Sir Bomaaji Dalal and the others injured, and expressed pro- found relief that the results were no more serious.

.He further unreservedly" con demned the outrage, zsauring the authorities of full support in such reasonable steps as might be neces sary to prevent a recurrence.

The resolution was carried u animously,

"Authority of the Chair.

In delivering his ruling, Mr. Patel said that the Government WASHINGTON, April 10, Victory in the "social preced statement that the President was not empowered to disallow discus- ence" battle, has been conceded to Mra Gann. A crowded meeting at sion of the Public Safety Bill was a direct challenge to the Chair, and the. British Embassy, composed of heads of practically every diplo matie mission in the United States, undermined its authority. The Law discussed the issue for hours, and decided that Mrs. Gann, should be member, in quoting Parliamentary accorded the social status normally Bathority had left out one import- held by the wife of the Vice-Presat sentence, namely that it wa

entirely within the discretion of the. sident.

Chair whether it could submit a new point of order.

This policy will be observed until the Diplomatic Corps are to obtain a definite ruling from a constitut- ed American authority."

Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, intimated that a com- mittee of the Diplomatic Corps had been appointed to deal with such

Mr. Patel was convinced that the proposed debate was impossible while the Meerut trial was pead- ing. Such a debate would only be a farce and a fraud. He further clanned that the Speaker exercised

after car

Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Mr. Sheedy's order has been legalised by a decision of the the Minister for War, to-day de States Supreme Court,livered the first of eight political United under which suficient liquor can speeches which, by arrangement, be taken aboard a foreign ports

will be broadcast in London by the There will be no public bar, but three parties. for the return voyage. the passengers may have quor

their meals.

AMERICAN TORNADO

VICTIMS.

PEOPLE PICKED UP BODILY.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN BLEVICE-]

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas,

April 11. There are up to now.8 dead and 40 injured in a tornado in the dis trict north of Newport,

LATER.

It is now estimated that 20 people are dead, and scores injured in the tornado.

Several persons were picked up bodily and carried a considerable distance before being dashed to Most of the injuries, however, earth.

caused by were

collapsing of bouses.

SALVATION ARMY PAGEANT. CENTENARY OF BIRTH OF GENERAL BOOTH.

THE PREMIER PRESIDES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AQESOY.).

1,840 Candidates.

Sir Herbert Samlel; one of the Liberal leaders, to-day inaugurated in the West Country, a great Liberal motor érusade from Land's End to John O'Groata, which is to last for three weeks

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With regard to the bombing of Las Limas in Honduras by United States heroplanes, and the allega tions that the town was destroyed by a fire resulting from the bomb ing, the headquarters of the United States Marines state that only one shack was destroyed.

The National Government has accepted the invitation of the German Government transmitted through Mr. Chiang Tso Ping. Chinese Minister at Berlin, to par ticipate in the International Public Health Exhibition which is to be held in Germany, in May, 1930. The State Council, in a communi- have cation to the Ministry of Public

Already 1,840 candidates been adopted, the party figures Health, instructs that a number of being as follows:

580

Conservatives Labour ".....nike 543 495 Liberal ................ The number of women candidates is not so great as was expected, but 65 women have been formally adopt ed for different constituencies, only seven of whom are Conservatives. Socialists have selected 30 women

candidates and the Liberals 28.

Everyone For Themselves!

A proposal that there should be a pact between the Liberals and the Conservatives to keep the Socialists out has been much dis cassed, but Sir Laming Worthing- ton-Evans, speaking of this proposal to-day, rejected it as a "policy of cowardice, and futility.".

Sir Herbert Samuel declared that the Liberal Party stands alone. It will not make a compact with either of its opponents.

90,000 Japanese troops have lately questions in the future. Apparent a direct induence on the legislative test LONDON, April 1, the bhakt The Liberal Rankaja The allegation is that the "said arrived at Liaoyang and Haicheng the status of Mr. Gann was not action of the House instion to theists, in the Albert Hall, watched the

been attempting to stir up trouble in Mongolia youths have been trying to start a Mongolian separatist movement,

General Yen Hsi Shan telegraph. ed to the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs on April 8, reporting that the Chairman of the Provincial Government of Outer Mongolia has been murdered by the Russians, and requested the "Gov. ernment to lodge a strong protest with the Soviet Government.

CHINESE MINISTER TO JAPAN.

(Wah Tez Tat Pag).

discussed.

in Fengtien. There are about 8,000 Japanese troops at Shenyanghsien, It is said that their object is to seize the railway running between THE Mukden and Haicheng.

JAPANESE NAVAL DISASTER.

SEVEN STUDENTS KILLED.-. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Tokyo, April 11.

It is officially announced that seven naval students were killed and thirty injured as the result of a mine exploding aboard a mine layer.

SHANGHAI, April 11. It is learned that Mr. Wang Yung Pao, the Chinese Minister to Japan,

The disaster occurred at the will be transferred, and Dr. Chu Chao Hrin, the Vice-Minister of Yokosuka Navy Base whilst prac Foreign Affairs and Commissioner tice operations were being carried for Foreign Affairs of Kwangtung, out will be appointed to succeed him...

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MORE REVENUE FOR NANKING.

SHANSI RECEIPTS TO BE REMITTED.

CONCESSION TO RADIO ENTHUSIASTS.

BRITAIN'S DECISION.

[BRITISH WIRKLZEN SERVICE.)

RUGBY, April 10.

(THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

A development in wireless broad SHANGHAI, April 11, It is learned from Taiyuan that casting is signalised by an an- nouncement that in view of the in- Yen Hai Shan has gone to Watai to visit his father. After a short creasing popularity of portable wireless sets, the Postmaster General stay there, he will proceed to has decided that in future a wire Peping.

All the national revenue collected less licence shall cover not only the in Shansi, Charhar,, and Suiyuan use of wireless sets at the permanent will hereafter be remitted direct address of the licensee, but also the

use of a portable act.

to the Ministry of Finance as a result of an agreement between Yea Hai Shao and Mr. T. V. Soong.

COMMUNISTS IN KIANGSI.

MISSION PROPERTY BURNED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENCY.]

PEPINO, April 11.. A message from Bishop O'Shee, of Kanchow, states that Communist troops life alilove in this to gion,

Mimion property at Jaikin has been burned, and the Communiste

MINORITIES. COMMITTEE TO MEET ÎN LONDON,

(6X1718H WIRELESS SERVICE)

Ruday, April 10. The meeting of the sub-committee appointed by the League Council at its last, meeting to deal with the question of minorities will gather in the Foreign Office of April

"Sir Austen Chamberlain is the rapporteur on the question and his

SOUTHERN CROSS. RESCUING CREW NOW MISSING.

· FORMER ENEMIES.

(THROUGĖ REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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10. Thousands of cheering Salvation- Power not to put s House was not expressly given, but pageant illustrating the Salvation accrued by implication and analogy Army's rise and progress, in con-

the He therefore ruled Public nection with the Centenary celebra- Safety Bill out order.

tion of the birth of William Booth, The ruling was received very

the founder. quietly.

Trade Bill Passed.

LATEE.

The Council of State has passed without change the Trade Dispute Bill, which the Assembly passed on

Lord Grey of Falloden addressed a meeting in London of the Liberal. Council which was formed against the leadership of Mr. Lloyd George in 1997.

public health experts under the Ministry be appointed as China's representatives to the Exhibition and that a budget of the expenses for the collection and transporta- tion of various articles for exhibit Germany together with the estimated expensee of the delegates be subunitted to the Council for consideration.

PROTECTING NATIONAL

CREDIT,

INTERNATIONAL ACTION AGAINST COUNTER-

FEITERS.

GENETA, April 9. An international conference for the suppression of counterfeiting convened here to-day under the- auspices of the League of Nations dent of the conference, Dr. V. In his opening address as presi- Pospisil. Governor of the Nation Bank of Czecho-Slovakia, declared that the conference would under- take the lautiching of an inter national convention on the subject,

The latter will be open for signa ture not only to all members of the conference but to all other States, whether members of the League of Nations or not.

Mr. Baldwin, accompanied by his

Lord Grey expressed the opinion

The conference to-day is the direct wife, presided, and said that it was

that the reasons for the separate most fitting that the Prime Minister existence of the Council had not outcome of the famous counterfeit. should speak on that occasion, for diminished, but as Liberals thering scandal of Prince Windesch gratez of Vienni, who flooded vari- the country and the country's debt must consider on which side they ous central European States with to Booth, who, like many great should fight the Election. He de counterfeit French banknotes.

a Conservative and aclared that only by the return of Apr measure, prepared by the reformer and believed in tradition Lieutenant "Keith Anderson and Government of India, is-hased on and novelty".. his pilot, Robert Hitchcock, both those sections of British Trade

BYDNEY, April 11

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of whom were recently engaged in Union legislation establishing a litigation with the Southern Cross Court. of Enquiry, composed of dis flyers, Captain Kingsford Smith and

disputes; also a Joint Conciliation Mr. Harry Ulm, in connection with interested persons, to investigate their Pacific flight, have been Board laying down the penalties for searching for the lost aeroplane stoppage of work by employees of since Monday, and are themselves public utility services on monthly now missing.

Anderson and Hitchcock should wages.

The measure applies also to per- have arrived at Wyndham, in sona fostering strikes or lockouts North-west Australia, last night, but to coerce the Government, or hav- nothing has been heard of them ing any object other than the fur- since they left Newcastle Waters, therance of the trade dispute within 40 miles from Wyndham.

the industry wherein the disputants are directly engaged.

"Government Activo.

SYDNEY, April 10. The Government of Australia has taken charge of the search for Cap- tain Kingsford Smith, Mr. Ulm and the two other occupants of the Southern Cross, which has been missing for twelve days.

"It is presumed that the maschine made's forced descent in the moun- tains some fifty miles east of Fort St. George, where the natives are unfriendly, but natural food is plentiful.

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THE "I'M ALONE": NOTE. "NOT TRUCULENT."

(REUTER'S AMERICAN 'SERVICE]

Washington, April 10. Although the terms of the Note to the United States on the Fa Alone sinking affair have not been disclosed; the Canadian Govern- ment is accused of truculence by a section of the American news papers and

men, was

DUBLIN-LONDON AIR SERVICE.

·PROPOSED IRISH SCHEME.

: [BRITIAN WIRELESS SKEVICE)

RUGBY, April.10.

A Committee of the Irish Free State Government is considering a scheme of aviation development for the. Free State which has been sub- mitted by the "newly-formed...com- pany, Irish Airways,

The Directors of the Company include Colonel Fitzmaurice, the

The Opposition in the Legislative Assembly urged the postponement of the Bill until the publication of the Report of the Whitley Commis-Atlantic fier.

ion, which has been enquiring into Labour conditions.

More Threats Made.

New Dau, Apfil 10. It is understood that some of the members of the Indian Legislative signed Diaramraj" (denoting the Assembly have received letters Hindu Socialist Republican Army) threatening them with death.

The police are investigating.

THE KING'S IMPROVEMENT

CONTINUES.

A ROYAL VISITOR. [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

The vastness of this enterprise a Liberal Government could the opened the eyes of various Euro- Country be safeguarded on the onepean States to the fact that counter- hand from Protection, and on the feiting could be conducted on a other, from Socialism.

scale sufficiently large as to injure Mr. Lloyd George's unemployment the credit and financial standing of pledge assured the return of a Gov-a State. As a consequence the ernment, which whatever its party, League was asked to take inter-s would have to consider Mr. Lloyd national action in the matter. George's proposals as a practical. policy..

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commissions

The conference will have as a basis of its work a draft convention Cabinet Mäels:

that has already been prepared by the League after consultation with British Wireless says that the expert

of police, first Cabinet meeting after the judicial, and banking nuthorities.

The convention will have a do Easter Recces has been held, and it is understood that Mr. Stanley largely with co-ordinating inter- Baldwin outlined the General Elec-national police, banking, and tion policy which he will announce judicial efforts for the suppression on April 18 at a meeting to be held of counterfeiting. at the Drury Lane Theatre.

Buch.

Signatory States will be asked to drastic penalties against It is also understood that Mr. enact The scheme embraces a regular Churchill, the Chancellor of the counterfeiters, and provisions will day servies between, Dublin and Exchequer, submitted some of the be made for the extradition of all London by machines capable of proposals of his forthcoming Budget, carrying from twelve to twenty pas-which will have a bearing on the sengers at a fare which is about the election programme. same as the first-class charge for rail and boat.

"THE DOVER ROAD.” INCREASED ATTENDANCE.

LAST NIGHT.

GROWING COTTON IN EUROPE.

Tea Market Prospects. Reuter learns that the business of the tea market has been held up because it is thought" that the SUCCESS OF AN EXPERIMENT. Budget will announce substantial re- ductions in the tea duty.

Sardínia (UP)An interesting cotton-growing experiment has been made at Monserrato in Sardinia, two miles outside the town of

Dealers are withdrawing as little as possible from bond: The general impression is that only Empire- Last night's performance of "The grown tea will be affected, but Cagliari. The nature of the soil Dover Road" by the A.D.C., at brokers do not believe that the here, which is not adapted for ordi- the Theatre Royal, received the whole of the Empire duty will be

mary local cultivation, has certain best attendance as yet.

removed. They anticipate a reducimilarities with that of well known

All the same, there were stillation of about 28. per lb. on Empire cotton-growing areas, and recent

number of vacant seats, and it is Shoped that tonight and to-morrow

night these will be filled,

RUGBY, April 10.

The public is reminded that 50 HM the King passed another good day. Despite a cold north- per cent of the takings will be easterly wind, His Majcsty was out given to the Fund for relief in the Contrary to these reports, Mr. in the gardens of Craigweil House distressed areas at Home.

tea.

Labour Programme." Following consultations between the Labour Party and representa Labour spokesman, Mr. Arthur tives of building operatives, the

land-reclaiming schemes effected in the district have provided for ade- quite irrigation.

The results of the first year's ex- eigtit quintals of cotton per hectare: periments show a cotton yield of (two and a quarter acres), quality of the cotton is good, aud Though the yield is not large the

cultivation next year. double the acreage under cotton

are approaching Kanchow, which colleagues who will come to discuss Canadian Note in most temperate Secretary, who walked and chatted greatly encouraged the Company head" in the provision of working preparations are under way to

is preparing for a siege pending the arrival of Governoient troops from Nanchang

the matter with him are Signor Quinones de Leon (Spain) and Mr. Adatchi (Japan).

H. L Stimson, the Secretary of the whole morning and was joined Its worthy of note that the Greenwood, M.P., has indicated formed it will go full steam State, says that the tone of the by Lord Stamfordham, his Private increased attendance last night that if Labour Government je

enabang them to give added rest He adds that with Els Majesty.

Prince Axel of Denmark arrived to their already excellent perform-class houses at reasonable rentals,

and the destruction of slums. and conciliatory. the American Reply is now being drafted.

at Bognor this" "afternoon.

anco.