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CHINA AND THE FOREIGNER.

EXTRALITY DISCUSSION,

NO ABOLITION LIKELY AS YET.

[RESTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

WASHINGTON, "May 12-

GERMAN AIR

ROUTES.

LUFTHANSA REDUCES

SCHEDULE..

SERIOUS COMPETITION.

(THROUGH REUTER'3' 'AGENCT.}..'

BERLIN, May 13.

As a result of the reduction in

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929.

RUSSIA SHORT OF BREAD.

DRASTIC RATIONING

MEASURES.

SERIOUS SITUATION,

[REWTER'E AMERICAN SERVICE]

New Yona, May 12, Mr. Klein, the Assistant Secre-

It is understood that foreign the subsidy to Lufthansa, the Ger- tory of the U.S. Commerce Depart Governments with interests in man airways, concern, the comment, in the course of a wireless China, approached by the U.S.pany's summer time-table shows talk to-day, said that Russia's State Department regarding their that various services, notably these to foreign countries, have been cut

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views extra-territorial rights, have informed Mr. H. L. Stimson that they are not willing to relin quish their rights in China immedi

ately..

gut.

Only 4,375,000 miles will be flown in 1929, compared with 6,950,000 last year.

It will be recalled that the

Fortiga aviation companies are Chinese Minister in Washington for the first time becoming active recently took up informally with competitors of Lufthansa. the State Department the question

of the early abandonment of United States extrality rights.

MYSTERY OF MISSING U.S. DISARMAMENT

GUARDSMAN.

ALLEGED HE WAS BULLIED.'

BUCKINGHAM PALACE DESERTION.

["D.P." Special Service.].

When the Officer of the Guard at Buckingham Palace made his rounds with the relieving guard on the night of May 1, he was not gravest problem at the present challenged by one of the sentries. time was a shortage of grain. Halting the relieving guard, he There was a scarcity of bread | stepped forward to investigate and in every Soviet city, he said, while drastic rationing had been im- posed, and prices were mounting rapidly. It is said that the pea tants are leaving their farms.

Russia will be compelled to im port probably half million tons of grain before the Spring harvest,

shone his torch. into the sentrybox. which; to his surprise, was deserted.

The sentry's rifle, with bayonet fixed, was standing in a corner and his busby and greatcoat, xere lying, on the fcor.

An' Alayın. Sonnded. Fearing that foul play had occur

FORMULA.

THE BRITISH EXPERTS-

SCEPTICAL.

NOT PRACTICABLE.

"[HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 13

The Daily Telegraph's naval cor- respondant writes to-day saying that the formala drawn up by the United States' naval experts for the reduction of fighting fleets is now being scrutinised by British experts.

BRITISH LADIES' GOLE

HOLDER NOT TO DEFEND TITLE.

MISS COLLETT'S SUCCESS.

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[THRODOK REUTER'S 'AGENCY. ]'

Telegrams in Brief.

In a letter to the London Press, Sir James Barr appeals to the pub- lic la subsoribe to the. One Million Shillings National Testimonial" to Sir Ronald Ross, whose health has been seriously impaired by his strenuous , research” work in the tropics, and who has been obliged for some years to draw on dis capital for famíly necessitiès,

ST. ANDRET's, May 13.

Tha. death is announced of the The British Ladies Golf Cham-septuagenarian, Mr. Lovell Birge. Harrison, the well-known American landscape painter. pionship started here today. The holder, Mile; Le Blan of France. now Madre de la Chaume, will not defend the title.

The New York police announce

that the sexagenarian, Mr. Edmand Quinn, who is one of the foremost of America's domestic sculptors, taking poison, but that he is now attempted to commit suicide by

improving. Miss

In the first round Alias Enid Wilson, holder of the English Chan- (Aldeburgh) by 3 and 9 pionship, beat Mirs Joy Wyan Gleana Collett

(the American beat. Miss Marjorie White, of Roehampton, by 5 and 3.

ARRESTED IN THE DARK.

The formula, it is stated, laya down as a maximum strength in cruiser, a tonnage of 950,000, a Champion) figure which would involve a heavy reduction in the American building ard the wholesale programme, scrapping of British warships.

British naval experts, says the Telegraph's correspondent, express this is done, as seems absolutely An extensive search was made of the opinion that the figure mer necessary, the purchase will com-

the Palace grounds. Lights were tioned would be utterly insufficient pletely exhaust the Soviet State fashed into dark corners and affor British requirements. 18, after Bank gold reserve and will absorb doable guard was posted.

providing for the battle feet, barely a large portion of the Government's foreign exchange.

FUNDAMENTALISM. AGAIN! presumably from the Argentine. Ired, the officer, raised the alarm.

The States Department it is) learned proceeded to make con... fidential enquiries of Britain. Japan, France and other countries holding extra-territorial privileges in China, and all replied in the sense indicated,

It is expected that the United States Government will inform the

UNIVERSITY FACULTY

,

DISMISSED.

U.S. SENSATION.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

New York, May 19.

Meanwhile it is stated that there is approximately 50,000,000 bushels of wheat in Canada at the present time, awaiting export orders.

FROM FOCH'S LATE A.D.C.

Special detectives co-operated a dozen cruisers would be available with the military in the search, for the defence of the British trade

routes throughout the world.. are being taken not to disturb any of the Royal Family who were sleeping in the Palace.

No suspicious characters were found, however, nor was any trace

Pte. George Sivewright, of the Scots Guards,

"Chinese Minister that they are The entire Faculty of the Univers willing to discusa the matter, hufsity of Des Moines (Iowa) have been must stand by the conditions laid dismissed apparently for failure to HELP FOR LLOYD GEORGE. secvered of the missing sentry, down in the Report of the Extra-agree with the fundamental views, territoriality Commission which met of the Baptists Bible Union which in Peking in 1996, for the gradual recently took charge of the Univer release of rights in accordance with

sity. The Faculty, however, have Chinese ability adequately to pro-been accorded the privilege of ap tect foreigners and their property.

plying for reinstatement in June.

Tumulous scenes were witnessed in the University itself when the Students decision was announced. hooted and booed" the Board of Trustees and the President

TROOP MOVEMENTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HANKOW, May 13. Yesterday witnessed further troop movements up the Peking Hankow pelted with bad eggs and garbage, Railway from here, and passenger Windows were smashed and ́furni. traffic is now completely suspended. It is generally believed that the tore hurled about the common situation is bound to come to a rooms. head within a few days.

FOREIGN CONCESSION

IN AMOY.

(Nam Cheung Pao). An appeal was recently made to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the people of Amor making for the

Police Called In.

["D.P." Special Service.]

London-Lloyd George' received unexpected support in his election campaign through the publication

"Foch Talks written by the great a series of articles entitled Frenchman's aide-de-camp, Com. mandant Charles Bugnet.

The anicles which were published in the Evening News quote Foch as saying of Lloyd George:

During the war days he saw everything clearly. He even in- vented me." And again:

Its Lloyd George tho has contributed the most toward the attainment of the unified com-

mand."

Liberals make no secret of the

The students refused to listen to explanations but continued to jeer at members of the Board who at tempted to speak. As a last resort, welcomeness of this support, for it the police were called in to restore is widely admitted that the Liberal order,

ex-Premier was at his best when Des Moines University represents. the ne plu ultre of American ng his country through the

dark days of 1914-18. During the past rendition of the foreign concession fundamentalism. at Kuiangsu (opposite Amoy).

two years all modern geologists, The Ministry has instructed the psychologists, and other evolution- Commissioner of Foreign Affairs aiste have been ousted and any - Amoy to discuss the matter with picion of unorthodoxy or modernism the French Consul there.

has been severely stamped out,

Higher criticism of the Bible is an invention of the regarded as devil.

THE OTHER WAY ROUND. U.S. PATROL BOATS HELD BY CANADA.

[REUTEE'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

OTTAWA, May 13.

DISTURBANCES IN ATHENS.

COMMUNISTS DEFY POLICE.

["D.P." Special Service.]

144 Canadian Sples.”

In view of impending Communist The President of the Board of Athens were banned by the authori

agitation, May Day celebrations at Trustees is Dr. Thomas Shields, ties. As a result of agitation, the minister of a Baptist Church in Government finally ceded a point

Toronto.

Beveral students were

The disappearance remained a mystery despite the fact that the police all over the country were hunting for clues,

The Mystery Solved, On Sunday morning, May 1, gaunt, emaciated man staggered into Aberdeen police station in an exhausted condition. He was shaven and ragged and his boots were broken and worn. His feet were blistered and bleeding from

ong tramping..

A Contradiction.

LONDON, May 13.. Reuter learns that the report that Britain has received details of the

American Naval Disarmament plans is incorrect. The Government only possesses the general plan outlined by Mr. Gibson at Geneva.

Foreign Affairs. [BETTISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGEY, May 12. Mr. Stanley Baldwin's election addrets, which has been issued to his constituency, is a lengthy docu- ment in which the activities of his Government and its fature aims are fully deals wth. The section of the

ROMANTIC EPISODE

MISTAKEN.

The British Board of Trade" re- turns for the month of April show that imports during the month totalled over £104,000,000, as com pared with £96,000,000 in April of. last year and £38,000,000 in the month of March this year. Exports also show considerable expansion. Their value last month exceeded £60,000,000, which is £1,500,000- more than the total for the preceding month and nearly £3,000,000 more than the total in April of last year. Coal exports represented in value- nearly £1,000,000 more than those of April of last year,

What at first appeared to be case of housebreaking was revealed to the Leeds magistrates as romantic episode.

When John Markham-stenue, was Moran, 23,

Two ballots at municipal elec- charged, on remand, with burglary, it was stated that soon after one tions throughout France have re- in the morning Mr Henry sulted in very little change in the Ringrose, of Arnclif-rond, West general political composition of the Park, was aroused by the sound of municipal bodies. In Paris the breaking glass. He telephoned to Governmental majority has been the police, and later discovered that raised from 47 to 52 seats, against

28 in the Opposition" a window had been broken.

Police officers afterwards JW

Moran, whose thumb was bandaged with a handkerchief, in Otley road. Accused then remarked: I am the man you want My young lady

at the house."

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A committee has been formed in

among proletarian adolescents." There are 40,000 registered, unem ployed aged between 18 and 18.

M. Paul Sarasin, the scientist and traveller, has died at Basel, aged 73. He spent several years in the East, and published a book en his scientific researches in Ceylon.

An officer stated thas Moran, who had a very good character, was un- der the influence of drink when arrested. He had been keeping company with a maid employed at the house; but they had had a till." The officer added that he was not quite satisfied that Moran did not go to the house with any felonious intent, but that he had broken the window in order to silver. attract the girl's attention. Moran was discharged.

Official figures just issued show that the mineral production of Ontario last year was valued at over £90,000,000. The chief metals mined are gold, nickel, copper, and

The Yugoslav Foreign Office has aunounced that the Cabinet had ratified the Salonika Convention, signed on March 17 in Geneva and

address dealing with foreign affairs declares that the promotion of peace and disarmament has been the prime cbject of their foreign | FATHER, FOUND BLEEDING. recently ratified by the Greek Pär As the duty sergeant stepped for-policy, and that policy has proved ward to assist him, the man col-successful over the whole feld of lapsed.

foreign affairs.

Medical assistance was summoned

and the man was revived. It was then discovered that he was the missing sentry. He confessed that

The improvement is the internn-

tional situation wrought by import ant treaties, such at the Locarno Treaty and the Kellogg Fact, leads

he had deserted and walked from London to Aberdeen to see his his Ministers to look with con- mother.

fidence for an early advance to wards disarmament.

Imperial Defence. Mr. Baldwin says they have set a notable example in the reduction of armaments, and along with this reduction in fighting strength they have progressively reduced the cost of Imperial Defence, despite con siderable programines of replace

He told the police that his life was made unbearable by bullying on the part of non-commissioned officer and he could: stand" the strain no longer. He had not seen his mother but had given himself up to the police of account of his exhausted condition.

He was allowed to see her and was then banded over to an escort and taken back to London.

This is the first occasion of de-ment in all the Services, neces-

sitated by modern conditions. arrested when the crowd of and altered the hän to a postpone i sertion while on sentry duty in the legians pursued two Canadians,ment until Sunday May 12.

Attempts on, the part of the long history of the Royal Guard whom they believed belonged to à Communist faction to cause trouble Canadian espionage system," but and the decision on the part of the Confederation of Labour to suspend were afterwards released.

transport services for five hours ied the police to make over 100 pre- Proclamations cautionary arrests, were poited prohibiting all Com- muniet meetings in the city itself. 1. Despite these precautions, the agitators defied the police. Several disturbances "occurred until the authorities finally decided to take no action. Matters then became Windsor is preparing & quist, and the poetponed celebra tians passed off without further incident.

A Canadian Government patre: boat has taken into custody ave sa mon fishery patrolling vessels, belonging to United States citizens,

Triumphant Return. on the charge of violating the

TORONTO, May 13. International Fishing regulations. Dr. Shields has arrived here from Des Moines. He received na ovation at the station from hun BRITAIN'S BABY PLANE.dreds of his congregation.

TO 00 INSIDE A SUBMARINE.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

WOMAN POLICE OFFICIAL

REPLACED.

TROUBLE IN NEW YORK.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

LONDON, May 12. A small aeroplane, that has been specially built to go into a sub- marine, is one of the sceret exhibits

New Yoza, May 12. that will be revealed for the Arst

Mr. Whalen, Chief of Police in time at the International Aero Ex New York City, has replaced "Mrs. hibition, to be opened at Olympia Mary Sullivan, the Director of the by the Prince of Wales in July. Women's Bureau of the New York

The machine is the outcome of some years of experiment and is Police Department, by a male police

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officer.

one of the most modern develop The dismissal of Mre. Sullivan is ments of aircraft science.

Several other Royal Air Force the result of protests from all machiner which have hitherto been over the country against a recent raid in New York by women police kept secret will be on view at

on a Birth Control Clinic, one of Olympia.

the many established in the United Stater by Margaret Sanger, who is the Marie Stopea" of America. - The conduct of the women police

CUSTOMS MAN'S NEAT CAPTURE.

WEALTHY WOMAN

SMUGGLER.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

LABOUR SURPRISE IN QUEENSLAND.

BIG DEFEAT IN GENERAL ELECTION.

{"D.P." Special Service:]

The defeat of the Labour Party in the Queensland general election apparently more severe than was indicated by previous figures. Latest figures are:- Nationalist Labour Independent

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on this occasion, and the fact that So far, Labour has lost 17 scats the private medical history sheets and the Nationalists have gained of the women patients were ref 15. The remaining 2 seats lost by moved as evidence, has caused a Labour were secured by the Lade storm of indignation in medical pendents? circles,

This result has come as a great surprise in Colonial political circles, for it had been anticipated that

ing victory, T

New York, May 19 ST. JEAN D'ARC FESTIVAL. Labour would again secure a sweep

A veteran Customs inspector bere has made a neat capture.

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He noticed that wealthy Boston woman, whose baggage be examining, kept putting her hand. to the back of her fur collar, whero- upon the Inspector contrived to touch the collar and felt something hard therein ACE BUT

The Inspector then examined the coat and found a diamond bracelet in the liningdale

PARIS EN FETE.

[D.P. Special Service,]

gaily.

The streets of Paris were decorated with flags and flowers on the occasion of the St. Joan of Arc National Fete on Saturday and Sunday,

M. Painleve (Minister of War) and M. Tardeu (Minister of the The wound was later charged and Interior) participated in the cere fined £3,000, for this and other un-monies and placed flowers on St. declared articles.

Joan's statue.

MEMORIAL TO BRITISH

DEAD.

UNVEILED IN BELGRADE.

["D.P." Special Service.]". Impressive scenes attended the unveiling of a memorial erected to the memory of 41 British soldiers who are buried in Nish cemetery.

WINDSOR'S WELCOME TO THE KING.

CIVIC CEREMONY ARRANGED.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

LONDON, May 12.

civic welcome for HM the King, who, with the Queen, will leave Bognor by motor-car on Wednesday morn- ing, arriving at Windsor Castle in time for luncheon.

ECHO OF A MURDER. DEATH OF MAN WHO SAID HE HAD SEEN HIS

.. COFFIN.

By the death at South Shields,

In 1925-30, the total estimated expenditure on defence services shows a reduction of approximately £7,500,000 18 compared with the corresponding cost in 1924-25.

The development of the League of Nations is, says Mr Baldwin, the cardinal principle of his Party's Foreign policy. The importance of the altitude by the present Govern- ment to the work of the League is illustrated by the fact that Great Britain has been continuously repre-

· ALLEGED SHOOTING BY 19-YEAR-OLD SON.

with intent to murder him, Victor Alleged to have shot at his father Morgan, 19, a collier's helper, of Blaenyewm, was brought before the

Magistrates at Pontypool.

The injured man, Charles Mor gan, 57, lies in Pontypool and Dis trict General Hospital with wounds on the left side of the face, neck, and shoulder. Accused lived with his parents on a farm on the moun- tain-side between the Eastern and Western Valleys of Monmouthshire It was alleged that they had a disagreement, and that the boy, picking up a double-barrelled gun, followed his father out of the house. Hearing a shot, other members of the family rushed out and found Mr. Morgan: bleeding from wounds The son was taken into custody at Newport, where, it was stated, he went up to a policeman and de- clared, “I have ̈shot my father.” Sergt. Davies gave evidence that when charged accused replied, "I did not mean to hurt him. I fired only just to frighten him." A remand was ordered..

Seffor, Arosemena, Secretary for Foreign Relations of the Republic of Panama, and Major Braith waite Wallis, the British Minister, have exchanged ratifcations of the treaty of September 28, 1928, en- to Great Britain most- suring favoured-nation treatment.

liament.

At Telaviv Sir John Chancellor, the High Commisioner, opened the Palestine and Near East Exhibi- gathering, the occasion marking the tion There was a very large 20th anniversary of the foundation of Telaviv,

Mr. Gault Macgowan has been appointed managing editor of the Trinidad Guardian. Mr. G. E. Huggins, director of the Trinidad Publishing Company, is returning to Port of Spain.

It is reported from Melilla that Moorish fishermen, in drawing in their pets, discovered the bodies of two Spanish airmen in uniform. It is supposed that these are the corpses of Major Kaulak and Captain Tauler, who disappeared on December 31 last, while flying from Spain to Morocco. Their sen plane

WLS aubsequently found empty of the coast near Oran.

Evangelical and Roman Catholic communities in Germany have agreed to make the experiment of establishing a Joint Conciliation Committee for the consideration of questions of competence or othér disputes which may arise between the two denominations. The com- mittee, which at any rate on the Protestant side for the time being. is to be regarded as a private undertaking, has already formed, and consists of ten pro minent members of each Church re- presenting all parts of the country.

been

Mr. Justice R. E.. A. Greenshielde has been appointed Acting Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and Mr. Justice J. A. Macdonald Chief Justice of the British Columbis Court of Appeal.

sented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the Council and in the Assembly of the League Peace. Measures. "We welcome, 28

the fruit of this consistent policy, the advance recently made at Geneva towards an international agreement for the

The King of Bulgaria, who is on reduction of armaments, and we

an quofficial visit to Berlin, called greally hope for a further advance upon President von Hindenburg. in this direction on the lines of The President, on account of his the proposals foreshadowed by re-recent indisposition, did not return presentatives of the United States the visit in person, but sent his the Association for the Protection According to a report issued by of America.

card through the Secretary of of Game in Australia, 40 per cent. We shall continue in every State, Herr Meissner,

of the herds of roebuck perished sphere of foreign policy to act in

The next International Housing during the severe winter. Red deer Cosest consultation and co-opera and Town Planning Congress, ar-

and chamois apparently fared much tion with the Governments of the

ranged by the International

better. at the age of 18, of Joseph Turn-Dominions. I believe this to be Federation for Housing and Town ball, an echo has been provided of essential if the unity of the Empire Planning, will be held in Rome The United States Supreme a murder at Willington, Durham, and its influence in councils of the from September 14 to 19, after a Court denied to the Interborough as long ago as 1873. Turnbull, who world is to be maintained."

preliminary meeting at Milan: on Rapid Transit Company, the right lived with his parents at High-

September 12. The congress recent- to increase fare on its subways and street, Willington, and worked as

ly held in Spain was that of the elevated railways in New York from 5c, 121d.1-the figure specified a "coal-miner was arrested and tried for the murder of a man

A large number of unemployed in in its charter-to 7c." Adelaide visited the office of Mr Members of the Franco-Scottien named Eagan, at Willington.

He was sentenced to death at

Butler, the Premier, and demanded Association, who are holding their Durban Assizes, but before the

an interview, When this was re-annual-meeting at the Cité Univer- day fixed for his execution the

The heroic

"negro porter who fused, they attempted to force the sitaire in Paris, were received at sentence was commuted to one of penal servitude for life. Turnbull stamped on a burning parcel in the door, but were held back by the the Hotel de Ville. Speeches were Later the demonstrators made by the President of the often referred to himself as the man New York main post-office and so police.

went to the Trades Hall, where Municipal Council, by M. Garnier, who had seen his own coffin.

brought about the discovery of a Largely through the efforts of the bomb addressed to Mr. Franklin D. niay scenes occurred, and the care and by Lord Stair. late Sir Joseph Pease, M.P., Turn- Roosevelt, the-Governor of New. taker was roughly handled.

Mr. Gullett, the Minister for bull was released on ticket-of-leave York, confessed to the United States For the purpose of hearing two about Christmas time in 1687, after District Attorney that he had cises within the Moroccan jurisdie. Trade and Customs, is withdraw serving a little over 14 years in manufactured the bomb himself,tion of the Gibraltar Supreme ing permits for the export of prison. After his return home the and had placed it where it was dis Court, the Chief Justice, the Re Australian birds. Exceptions are gistrar, and the Usher left Gibral made in the case of zoological col people of Willington helped Turn covered.. bult to catablish a general dealer's. He had hoped, he said, to gain tar for Morocco. One case arises lections and for birds intended as business, but it was not successful, recqnition of his heroism in out of a motor-car collision in ships pets. He bases his action on and he went to work in a Brance the shape of increased pay. The which the British Vice-Conmil at his distress at seeing hundreds of bont be made contained black Marrakesh was involved. The caged birds in pitiful conditions in peth pit

to Islington markets.” A few years later he went to dive powder, but there was no possibility Court will then proceed

Casablanca to hear: a divorce case: · (Continued on Previous Column) that it could be, exploded, on Tyneside.

THAT ROOSEVELT BOMB! International Union of Towns,

A NEGRO'S CONFESSION.