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THE EXTRALITY QUESTION.

FOREIGN PROTESTS,"

TREATIES REVISION

DISCUSSIONS.

(Dah Tas Yat Pao.) ·

SHANGHAI, May 19.. At a join: conference held by the British. American, French and Japanese Chambers of Commerce at Shanghai on May 11, a resolution was passed opposing the request of the National Government for the abolition of Consular jurisdiction.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. C. C. Wang received the Polish Minister for the discussion of the Sino-Polish new treaties, op Saturday.

The Belgian Chargé d'Affaires arrived at Shanghai on Saturday and will interview Dr. Wang with regard to the rendition of the Bel gian Concession at Tientsin.

"N. C. D. N." BANNED BY NANKING GOVERNMENT,

[THEDOCH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANEING, May 12. All persons in the service of the Government have been forbidden to read the North China Daily Neur Anyone who disobeys will be punished as a counter-revolutionist,

CHINA NEWS BREVITIES.

SHANGHAI, May 12

PHILIPPINE SUGAR INTERESTS.

·BRITISH CONTROL

ALLEGED.

WASHINGTON DEBATE.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 13,1929.

BRITAIN'S SHARE OF MR: MACDONALD'S

WAR COST.

PLATFORM.

EXCESSIVE PAYMENTS.

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** SCAREMONGERS" SET AT DEFIANCE.

CARRYING TOO HEAVY

A BURDEN.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)

entailed by the War.

WASHINGTON, May 11.

LONDON, May 19, « During the course of the Tariff Britain has borne an excessively debate in the House of Representa-heavy share of the financial burdens tives, Senator Rainey opposed a sug gested increase of rates for sugar imports other than from the Philip pines. He declares that Philip pines sugar interests were under British control, and the net effect would be the enrichment of British coffers and a tax upón American consumers ·

Great Britain made war advances to her Allies amounting to £1,600,000,000, and in order to finance her Allies she borrowed more than half that amount from the United States.

MANY REFORMS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 12.

ZEPPELINS FOR AMERICA.

AMBITIOUS - PLANS.

A TRANS-PACIFIC

SERVICE.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE:)

New York, May 10. Mr. Paul Litchfield, President of

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in his election address, describes himself the Goodyear Zeppelin Company, as a believer in Socialist ideas who visited President Hoover at the will do his best to apply them in White House, accompanied by a a business-like way, as a solution group of sympathetic Senators. He of the industrial difficulties, and for outlined the plans for building two the augmentation of national pro- great mail passenger dirigibles for sperity.

the trans-Pacific service.

President. Hoover was reported to have intimated that the Government- favoured the proposal.

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OPENING OF RHODES Telegrams in Brief.

HOUSE.

LIBRARY THAT WILL BE UNIQUE.

LORD GREY'S EULOGY,"

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE].

turers'

New York's Rubber Institute has been dissolved and the name of the Rubber Association of America changed to the Rubber Manufac-. Association Incorporated.· Membership of the Association is restricted to frms and individuals directly engaged in making rubber products in the United States,

Sixty persons are reported to have been macinerated in a forest fire which destroyed the small mountain village of Xochipils, in Mexico.

RUGBY, May 19. The Rhodes House, which has been built at Oxford for the Rhodes A message from "Washington Trustees, was formally opened yestical Association has officially re- states that the National Aeronau terday by Sir Otto Beit, who said cognised the new world's altitude that the inscription round the top record of 39,140 feet established by of the building was, "This house Lieutenant Appoilo Soucek of the

U.S.- Navy. stands forever. as a reminder of the name and example of Cecil

Rhodes to Oxford.”

It gave a true impression of the intentions of the trustees in crect-

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against carrying weapons hat non The Bombay Government's ban He dismisses all anti-Socialist

beer withdrawn, but the two Britain in 1922 funded her debt "scaremongers?

as people who

Sikhs who went on a hunger strike to the United States on terms which insult the electors' intelligence, and

in prison had their kirpans restor ed to them and so broke their fast. Sugar Control Figures.

provided for full repayment in says that a Labour Government will

It seems certain that Congressing it. Viscount Grey of Falloden,

The warship Waldeck Rousseau During the Tariff debate the Com-years, with back interest from June, eventually nationalise the coal in will give the new service a mail Chancellor of the University, said has left Toulon with Rear Admiral missioner for the Philippines, object-1919, capitalised at 4 per cent. and dustry, concentrate грод slum subsidy, permitting the inaugura-

that Rhodes cared for personal pre-Mouget, the new commander of the ed to Mr. Rainey's statement, and interest from the date of funding clearance, and amplify maternity tion of the air line by 1933, stige, success and renown, only 30 French Naval Forces in the Far

East, declared that Te per cent of the at 3 per cent. for ten years and 34 benefits, besides protecting child-

Admiral Mouget will meet. Mr. Litchfield said that the com-

far as they counted towards the Rear-Admiral Stotz in Colombo capita invested in sugar was con- per cent. thereafter. The amountsen's health through pre-natal and pany will inaugurate the service objects he had in view. He was a where they will transmit po vers, troiled by United States citizens or due to her were far in excess of her baby clinics. The programme also with two dirigibles, capable of giv-he future of British people lay not the new Parliament to assemble on

great patriot, but he realised that

A Royal Proclamation orders Filipinos.

debe due to the United States, but cludes the fasilitation of educing a thirty-six hour service from the Balfour Note of August, 1929, tion, the passing of a Factories Bill San Francisco to Honuials.

and the ratification of the Washing summed up the British policy on

Graf Zeppelin Bought. the question in the followington Eight Hours Convention.

Besides all this the Party will amend the Workmen's Compensa

FACTORIES IN CHINA.

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS.

[British United Fress.]

sentences:-

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NEW YORK, May 12

It is reported on Wall Street that negotiations are. proceed-

in rivalry and opposition, but in June 25. association with other nations with great resources and great cepacity..

The library of Rhodes House will

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MORE DEWARISMS.

in many respects be unique. In it SAMSON AS AN ADVERTISER.

will be collected all the books deal-

[British United Press.]

The policy favoured by Hiation Acts and Trade Union Law so Majesty's Government is that of that the grave and insulting in- ing for the purchase of the Grafing with history (social, political, arcadering their share of German justice done by industrial combine Zeppelin, for use as an air pasand economic), and with the litera- reparations and writing oft, tions to workmen cannot continue,

It will also deal with the cond-senger liner to operate between Losture of the English-speaking British Although new factory regulations whole of the inter-Allied indebted- tions of the cotton, iron and steel Angeles and Honolulu. According Dominions and colonies, and the artist will get more publicity if

through one great transaction, the

"Mr. Sun Fu is going to Peping cases as bad as they could possibly pose to ask more from our debtors the country, which on the other land and Los Angeles capital will

on May 13.

A message from Changsha states that four columns of Human troops are advancing southward with the object of enveloping the Kwangsi forces in Kwangtung.

Advices from Mukden are that Madame Sun Yat Sen arrived there yesterday from Europe en route to Peping.

Fang Chen Wu arrived in Nan- king from Tehchow on Saturday, and conferred with Chiang Kai Shek with regard to the administra-

tion of Anhwei, and the stationing of bis troops.

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Messages received by the Kuo Min Agency are that Hunan forces have captured Chuanchow, North Kwangai.

Chen Wen Lin, the Chinese

have been adopted by the National neas. But, if this be found impos-industries, and appoint a commis-

to messages received from Cleve- Government of China, no attemptssible of accomplishment, we wish sion to consider the Hicensing laws, have been made to enforce them, any event desire to make a profit which is now mis-rpent through the details of the purchase of the it to be understood that we do not and the control of liquor traffe, all land, John Elden, the President of of which will save a great deal Skyways. Intorporated, stated that and factory conditions, all over out of it.". China, are consequently "in most

pauperising agencies. Therefore In no circumstances do we pro- there will not be the nett met to dirigible are to be arranged in a conference there to-day, and Cleve- than is necessary to pay to our hand wil be enriched by the taxing be united to bay the airship at creditors. And while we do not ask or more, all will admit that we

of land values, or the increasing of can hardly be content with less.

taxation upon other huge unearned a cost of about one million dollars. For it should not be forgotten, liabilities were incurred for others, though it sometimes is, that our not for ourselves.

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declares Chang Che Kuei, writing in the Chinese-edited week ly,China Tomorrow, published in Peping.

The writer, who appears to have authoritative information, declares that conditions are so terrible that, they can be due only to jadifference of the government and the general public of China, and calls upon the Chinese people to correct the terrible conditions prevailing as soon as possible.

Badly Illuminated. Mr. Chang lists the conditions prevailing in almost all of China's factories as follows:

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Co-operative. Effort.

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Food, and raw materials were required by the immense naval and military efforts of Great Britain, and the amounts advanced to the Allies were provided not, by means

incomes.

Mr. Baldwin's Appeal. Mr. Baldwin, in his election ad- dress, reiterates his refusal to make spectacular promises. He lays down

LORD MAYOR'S SERMON STORY.

AND THE BISHOP TELLS A GOOD ONE.

comprehensive programme to Etimulate trade, and the creation of permanent employment. He also declares there will he no The Lord Mayor of London, pre general tariff, but that all indus- siding at the annual banquet at the tries may seek safeguarding, pro-Mansion House, in proposing the of foreign loans, but by war taxa-viding the taxation of food is not toast of Prosperity to the royal

involved. An appeal was therefore

hospitals," said that the governors He will continue to promote Im of all these hospitals and the Lord made to the Government of the United States and, under the ar- perial preference to which the Mayor and Corporation of London rangement they arrived at, the Empire, which today is our best attended divine service at Easter United States insisted that though sponded, but we regard the em- for the good work of the hospitals, enstomer has appreciatively re-annually to show their gratitude our Allies were to spend money, it ploymens of British capital and fin- were allowed to spend it.

tiam.

from 12 to 16 hours every day, on

Workers are compelled to stand was only on our security that theyance in a British enterprise as likely and to listen to what was called the

wet floors with feet soaking wet.

Rooms where the work is done are generally badly illuminated, both avia- daylight and electric light being

tor, has arrived at Amay, and will insufficient to avoid terrific exactails are reflected in the fact that

fly to Shangbai next week.

BUBONIC PLAGUE" AT OSAKA.

(THROUGH REUTER'S.AGENCY.}

OSAKA, May 11. Another case of bubonic plague has been discovered at Kobe, ́. A

This co-operative effort was of infinite value to the common cause, but it cannot be said that the role assigned in it to this country was of special privilege or advan tage."

The sacrifices which this policy Britain is in the most heavily taxed Ventilation is inadequate, the air condition, and by all parties it is being foul and temperatures run-insisted that the cost of any further ning to extremes of heat and cold alleviation allowed to Germany must not fall upon Britain alone, according to season..

by all the creditor nations. but must be shared proportionately

strain.

United States of America.

POLICE CHASING “DANGER-

London. The Lions of society are Tigers for publicity. A star

her motor car break downs than

warisms," had a great deal to say. some people would get if their "heads were amputated." Lord Dewar, famous for his "De- about advertising when he opened an exhibition of poster art. Among his snappy paragraphs were the fol-

OUS THOUGHTS.”

COMEDY OF ADMINISTRA-lowing:

TION IN TOKYO,

[British United Fress.]

جيب

Tokyo, May 10-That the gentle burglar is able with comparative impunity to carry on his nofarious Pursuit at the expense of the citizens of Tokyo is not surprising when one considers the many absorb ing interests which occupy the minds the police of the capital.

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Success is merely à matter of buying your experience cheap and selling it. at a profit. It is much casier in these days to produce good merchandise then to sell it.

"Prosperity is something which business men create to enable politicians to take all the credit." The most business-like thing a government can do is to keep out, of business.

For Salesmen. !

A prosperous house to house salesman attributes his success to the first five words be speaks when a woman opens a door, Miss, is rour mother in 1" An ounce of flattery is worth more than a ton" of tombstone obituary.

"Nothing deflates so fast aS D punctured reputation." There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.

In almost every issue of the local foreign newspapers there are re ferences to the activities of the morals and thoughts. police in their role of guardians of Dance halls, where modern youths Spital or hospital sermon which

and maidens disport themselves, to prove a more fruitful investment was always preached by a bishop. cause the police tremendous than speculative loans or guarantees "One preached took four hours to

amount of worry. They are sure to & foreign government, which deliver it, and when printed it oc

that dancing, in the so-called west squanders, its own resources in a cupied 230 octavo pages. Another era style, is immoral, and besides futile war against capitalism.. and preached was equally elaborate. It the framing of innumerable régula the joy of putting salt on an idea. so far has shown neither a friendly was recorded that the Lord Mayor tions, exhaustive statistics are com pess to recognise past obligations." disposition to Britain nor a read of the day in complimenting the piled wherein they work out to five The greatest mistake you can make untiring preacher said that there or more points of decimals the is to be continually fearing you Mr. Baldwin, after his adoption

Some people are as candidate at Bewdley, announc-

the minutest details as to the girls will make one. ed his entire agreement with Mr.

employed as dancing partners, and always looking for a new kind of Rameny MacDonald's demand for a

mistake, to make. their masculine guests. clear-cut majority, in order to avoid

were

his.

No Time for Burglars. Cafes, too, of which so many have sprung up in recent years, call for the same supervision, regulations and statistics.

four things during Bermon which he had been very sorry to hear. "Dear, dear, my Lord," said the preacher, what

"Bir," were they?"

came his Bir mean a stalemate in the Government. He Lordship's reply,

the elso said that this was important quarters struck by the church domestically, but more important clock" abroad, for the maintenance of the

The Bishop of Winchester (this British influence for world peace year's Spital preacher) in

"Just now a questionnaire is being and the induence of Britain with speech related a story of the war.

issued to 10,000 cinema halls, with the United States.

After 26 hours bombardment a the object of determining the in- dug-out was opened. It was found fluence on the minds of young to contain eight men. There were people and juveniles exerted by the memorandum on unemployment in

two Welshmen, two Irishmen, two Scotsmen, and two Englishmen. the form of a white paper in reply what were they doing when dug to the Liberal pamphlet expounded out was opened The two Welsh by Mr. Lloyd George. It consists

men were singing hymns, the two of a general statement wherein the Minister of Labour says that the Irishmen were fighting, the two produce 210 yards of cloth in one Schacht's ideas of what safeguards Liberal programme would simply discussion, the two Englishmen by the police in chasing dangerous

Scotsmen were having a theological shown. week, while a similar labourer in Germany must have if she is to pay when carried out and opines that it had not been introduced.

create a problem of demobilisation

Even in factories where em- ployees have to work" with poisonous chemicals, there is little, if any, provision for the workers to wash their hands before eating. There is complete lack of any member of the crew of the Sumatra sort of first-aid or medical advice Maru died

Sunday. Ön

The

or any sort of dispensary. authorities are much exercised

Hard Workers, over the question in view of the forthcoming visit of the Duke of Gloucester and the Emperor.

-IRELAND AND THE

VATICAN...

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ROME, May 12. The Onervatore Romano states

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Payments from Germany.

PARIS, May 12 The creditor powers have decided temporarily to drop the question of the distribution of German pay

menta

Sir Josiah Stamp, with Dr. Mr. Chang asserts that a Chinese Schacht, is re-drafting the worker in a textile factory can

embodying Dr.

Germany can produce 456 yards, in England 106 yards, and in the United States 1,500 yards.

mittee's report

Mr. Owen Young's figure.

com-

Mr. MacDonald's View.

Discussing the reparations, speech

LONDON, May 30,

at Doncaster, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald declared that the Labour Party stood for complete and final settlements of War Debts all round.

burdens unless they got equivalent

Unemployment.

The Government has issued a

is impracticable and is based on a misunderstanding of the unemploy-

ment problem Ministers of an SECRETS OF HIGH SPEED.

also contribute memoranda dealing port and Health, the P.M.G, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer with unemployment in their own spheres.

REVELATIONS OF SLOW MOTION INSTRUMENT.

DOVICS

Officials are required to state the manber of minors who attend the cinema halls, and the report as to the probable impression which these young people gather from the films

A great amount of time is spent thoughts," and the activities of socialista and communiste are con tinually under observation,

"There is no joy in life equal to

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Many a false step is made by standing still Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. Everybody should be busy, none should be a busybody."

We agree with Lord Dewar and suggest that a glance at our "small ad columns" will be of interest to readers.]

SEA PADDLING RISK..

CORONER'S HOLIDAY TIME

WARNING.

Wha

"It is no wonder, he declares, "that men, women and children who labour early and late in dark, crowded, damp ill-ventilated, and often foul surroundings are at the ebb-tide of their alertness and vitality.

"These conditions alone that the Irish Free State has up-shocking enough, but seem unspeak. They were not going to take on more AN ARCHBISHOP AT PLAY cinematography was instrumental incurring the penalties of the law.juries may be a source of great

able when one considers the

are

applied to the Vatican with a view tortuous, long hours of factoryguarantees that nations which anid

to the establishment of diplomatic workers. With a very few excep they were unable to accept a less relations: The Holy Sce bas tions, the 12-hour shift prevails, contribution from agreed to send a representative to Dublin and receive a duly accredit ed minister of the Irish Free State.

old enemies In the silk filatures Shanghai, the proved their poverty by spending working day, is usually 144 hours.

FRANCO-AMERICAN FILM

PROPOSALS.

AN IMPASSE

· (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

In cotton milla, men, women and children alike work 12 hours a day, and other week must go on

every night-shift. In Wuhan, the workers in steel milis labour from 12 to 16 hours a day.

less on armaments.

CHIEF CONSTABLE'S SUDDEN DEATH.

TAKEN ILL IN A RESTAURANT.

Mr. Henry Woolnough, chief con- stable of York City, died suddenly in Londen, where he was on a visit.

Strand restaurant, and was about He had lunch with friends in

to leave, when he became ill.

"One a few factories under Christian management suspend work on Sunday. A few of the more modern plunts cease, work oncé in ten days or two weeks to clean or repair the machinery, but PARIS, May 10.

over 70 per cent. of Chinese Negotiations between French and labourers work seven days out of American film producers with re- every week except for four or five gard to the proposals made by the days at Chinese New Year." French Government for the modify Mr. Chang concludes by saying: A doctor was sent for and Mr. ing of restrictions upon the import It is by the attitude of a nation Woolnough was rushed in a motor- of American filme have broken toward the sacredness of burdan

Consequently,

car to a nursing home, where he down.

American life that we judge the measure of died. producers will probably continue to that nation's civilisation. And He was just over sixty years of ban the export of films to France China can never be worthy of that age, and had been in the police and will probably ban the import consideration until her industrial force for nearly forty years, start- of French films into America. conditions are vastly improved." ing his career in the ranks.

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cause

A cut on the foot, received while paddling as Littlehampton, caused the death from blood-poisoning of Mr. William Leslie Warren, aged The police of Tkyo have really no

twenty-six, a music publisher, of time to catch burglars, much less Heathdene-road, Streatham,

A friend said at the inquest at to prevent housebreaking, and per- hape it is in recognition of this Walworth that Mr. Warren that the judiciary are considering paddling with bis fiancée at the whether a householder may be allow time.

"These apparently trivial in- The introduction of slow motioned to assault a burglar without

aid the cozoner, "bo- Hitherto it has generally been con- danger," in revealing hitherto unsuspected phenomena associated with moving sidered that it was unlawful to

healthy young people, A DUBLIN INCIDENT. objecta. Now, according to Mr. C. resist a burglar. However that naturally enough, do not bother- Hyatt-Wolf, editor of the "Instru may be, a burger very seldom wet, about them. Now that the holiday Boomerang-throwing, at whichment. World," this fascinating with any opposition whatever from season is approaching it cannot be pur English cricketers in Australia study has been greatly widened by his victims, bave been trying their hand with an instrument, the rotoscope, der out much success, except in the signed by a British engineer, and

made in England. case of Hammond,-bad a mild spell of favour in Great Britain about a century ago, and seems to tive exercised a fascination even over eminent ecclesiastics,

Archbishop Whately practised the art assiduously on the little square attached to St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, near where his palace stood, sometimes with the public gazing at him with awe or amusement through the railings.

That's the Archbishop of Dublin, Mary, playing in there," explained one old dame to a crony one morn. ing

stated too emphatically for the warning of the public that these injuries, however trivial, should be treated at once with iodine from It may be the means of preventing these tragedies."

A verdict of Death by misad- venture" was recorded.

The behaviour of instruments separate glimpses of a moving the nearest chemist. rotating, for example, at such a ject are obtained. By approximat great speed as 500 revolutions aing the cylinder speed to the speed second can be studied. An object at which an object is moving, the revolving at this speed is seen phenomenon of retentivity of vision through the reloscope as though produces the effect of a continuous moving no quicker than at one re

slow motion view of the object.

Many interesting effects have been IMPREGNABLE PAID OFF. volution per exisúte...

aludied with the instrument. For example, it has been observed that the fame from an ordinary gas jet fluctuates considerably instead of remaining steady, as it appears. Drops of water falling from tap are always spherical and never

Two Glimpses,

The Impregnable, boys training establishment at Devonport, WAB pail off recently, and the vessels forming the establishment have been placed under Dockyard con- trol, preparatory to being placed on the sale list.

The instrument consists essential ly of a small, dynamically balanced cylinder, which can be rotated by a motor at high speeds on jewelled bearings. Its speed is controlled by na externally operated ball as popularly thought, pear-shaped. Ye don't say io, Biddy; well, governor.

Lightning is revealed as a single isn't he the innocent crathur!" The cylinder contains two rectan-intense spot of light, which travels Capt. C. Ramsay, who has "He's the Protestant Archbishop.gular apertures separated by the at so tremendous a speed that the been in command of the establish Mary."

width of an observer's eyes. Thus human eye and the photographic ment since June 30, 1927, has been Och exclaimed Mary, the on each turn of the cylinder two camera' are deceived into register appointed to a senior officers" tech ould fool 1"

(Continued at foot of next column). ing it as a tortuous chain of light,nical course,