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BRITAIN AND CHINA.

IMPORTANT NAVAL AGREEMENT.

TO HELP TO DEVELOP CHINA'S FLEET.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, July 1. A Sino-British Agreement has been signed providing for the training of Chinese, naval cadets in

JAPAN'S POLITICAL

CRISIS.

OMINOUS CALM BEFORE

THE STORM.

CABINET CONFERS.

[HROUGH PETER'S ÄDENCY.]

TOKYO, July 1.

THE HONG KONG

ROY C. ANDREWS FUNDS.

$500,000 SUBSCRIBED. IN AMERICA.

T

►

WORK TO PROCEED?

["D.P." Special Service.]

DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929.

NEW YORK; July 1. The American Museum of Natural

There is a lack of any definite History reports total subscriptions developments in the political situa- to the Roy Chapman Andrews ex- tion during the past 36 hours, inpedition of $500,000, mostly con

THEIR MAJESTIES' RETURN.

TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION.

BRILLIANT SPECTACLE

'IN LONDON.,,

(THROUGH BRUTER AGENCY.]

Bricuin, and the engagement by strong contrast to the rapid deve,tributed by museum members in they ceremonially, drive from the

the Chinese Government of alopments of Saturday, but the 'British Naval Mission to assist in calm is ominous of the coming the development of the Chinese

storm, which is likely to break to Yavy.

morrow in the form of the Cabinet

It is understood the Chinese Government has a comprehensive programme of. building a substan- tial Navy with the intention that some of the vessels will be con structed by Great Britain.

CHINESE COURT PROCEDURE.

WANG CHUNG HUTS

-OPINION.

D.P." Special Service. ]

the various sections of the United

· States,

Fanda for the present your are already in hand.

"Appeal to China. resignation, when General Yama

SHANGHAI, July 1. rashi, Governor-General of Korea, Negotiations are proceeding with Mr. Yamamoto, President of the Wa Chao Chu (Dr. C. C. Wu) South Manchuria Railway, and regarding completion of the Roy other high officials are likewise Chapman Andrews expedition's expected to quit their posts...

An urgent Cabinet conference is now sitting with the purpose of making final deliberations.

The meeting between Baron Tanaka and Mr.. Tokonami yester- day is interpreted in some quarters | as indicating the possibility of Baron Tanaka recommending «Mr. Tokonami as his successor, on the New York, July 1.

understanding that the Seiyukai Wang Chung la, eminent Chi nese jurist, sailesi on the Maurerty will give full support to the

nexe

trudny

new Government; but it is general. ly believed that the meeting was

He said a simplification in Chimerely for the purpose of arranging

court procedure could ha

to co-operate in the future às affected, given modern and efficient

| Opposition parties. courts.

Well-informed circles further as sert that the Minscito Party wil succeed to power, with Mr. Hama guchi as Premier, Barön Shidehara as Foreign Minister and Admiral Takarabe as Minister for the Navy

YEN HSI SHAN,

STILL NEGOTIATING.

[TEROUGH BEUTER'S "AGENCT.]"

A Perennial Optimist.

Teriso, July 1.

In the event of the Minseito forming Government, Yen He Shan has not yet left Party

inchers of General Ugaki is expected to suc for Taiyuan, and Chiang Kai Shek's entourage de-ceed General Yamanashi in Korta, clare that Yen Hsi Shan has given though he may be given the War on his intention of going abroad.

.."

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Office:

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On the contrary Shansi officials

Persons closely in touch with the state that this is without justifica political situation believe that tion Yen. Hai Shan still interds Baron Tanaka will resign the to depart for Japan on July 5. Presidency of the Seiyukai, and However it seem the last word quit politics, though Tanaka him- has not yet been said, as Ho Cheng seit is a perennial optimist whom Chun was closeted at Yen's house nothing is able to disconcert. all this morning carrying on nego.

He is reported to have remarked tiations, while Yen's special tran waits with steam up to carry bim smilingly, I can going now, bat, to Taiyuan for the purpose of my turn will come again." Setching Feng Yu Hsiang.

WHAT YEN TOLD CHIANG KAI SHEK.

is

(Nan Chung Kuo.)

Resignation Report.

LATER.

It is reliably learned that this

Cabinet conference sulted in a decision to resign

morning's

blog.

work.

LONDON, June 30:

of the opportunity afforded it to- London will fully take advantage morrow to extend an immense wel. coine to the King and Queen when

neighbourhood of the Albert Hall to Buckingham Palace on their return to town from Windsor.

Their Majestics will travel as far us Kensington in a closed motor-car then enter an open landan drawn By four horses, while soldiers will give the royal salute.

Members of the Royal suite will ride in two other open carriages, all of which will be drawn by four bays in scarlet and black and gold trappings. preceded by two out- riders in scarlet and gold, the FROM semi-state livery. Two postiliona, similarly liveried, will ride horses and there will be twn footmen on

57 YEARS AN EDITOR! ·

SCOTT RESIGNS **MANCHESTER GUARDIAN."

MR.

[THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.]

Londos, Julyel.

Mr. C. P. Scott has resigned the Editorship of the Manchester

Guardian,

His son, Mr. E. T. Scott, chief leader-writer for the past three years, succeeds to the post.

Mr. Charles Prestwich Scoti, who was horn at Bath in 1846, has been Editor of the Manchester Guardian since 1879, and is, be sides, the Governing Director of the newspaper.

He was M.P. (Liberal) for Leigh, Lancashire 1820-1900, and is Governor of Manchester University and Manchester Grammar School.}

ANOTHER "TRUNK LINE "

IN AMERICA..

BIG RAILWAY MERGER.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

WASHINGTON, July Plans of another trunk line in the

the box..

The royal landau will be attended by captains of the escort from the Life Guards, and will bear the Royal Standard.

Miles Procession. The procession will follow 3, rather indirect route of 2 miles to the palace, through Piccadilly. and other high-class thoroughfares, where seats to view it are com manding as much as £5.

Their Majesties' re-entry into the capital will be triumphant in the highest degree, given fine weather, which, unfortunately, is breaking up-thus ending the long drought

Send-on at Windsor.

LONDON, July 1 The weather this morning was dull and cold, boding for the King's return to his Capital.

The

multitude

drew a event along the 24-miles route of the State Procession from the Albert Hall to Huckingham Palace. There were елку from overseas and Americans who are now thronging London.

The rain held off and the sun

CIGARETTE SALES DOWN.

AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.

FIGURES.

RESULT OF WARFARE.

[D.P. Special Service.]

New York, July 1. The American Tobacco Company report shows that for the first four months of 1820 cigarettes exported to China were valued at $1,039.000 KLA against 88,162,000 for the pre. vious corresponding period,

The decrease is attributed effects of Chinese warfare,

"THE AFGHAN TROUBLE.

NADIR KHAN IN FLIGHT.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

to

FIGHTING THE "RUM RUNNERS."

A 3,000-MILE FENCE SUGGESTED!

A COSTLY BUSINESS.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN 'ÉERVICE,]

WASHINGTON, July 1.

Three thousand miles of barbed

BRITAIN AND THE LEAGUE.

· PERSONNEL OF THE

DELEGATION,

A NATIONAL POLICY.

THROUGH REFTER'S AGENCY. ].

Losnos, June 30

The Government has decided thas wire, three ines deep, and seven the personnel of the British dele- feet high, is the latest suggestiongation to the League Assembly in to prevent liquor trickling in from September will

Canada.

The barricade is estimated to cost about £1,000,000, but Mr. Low. the man, Assistant Secretary to Treasury whore zeal was recently virulently condemned, is of opinion it will be cheap, as at present 1.00 men, at a cost of £1,000,000 annual I are unable to stop rum-running, whereas a harbed-wire fence" would facilitate the job, with fewer

agents.

SINGING SERGEANT MAJOR.

OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE'

REPLY TO "RED BLAG." CALCUTTA, June 1. Nadir Khan has reportedly fled

Mr. Harry Durrant, to, Parachinar, a North-west frop-Leytonstone, who appeared at Bow sergeantmajor, of Harvey-mad. tier province, following the capture County Court recently on a sum

an

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tribesmen allied to Habibullah. of his headquarters at. Gardez by mons for possessión brought by Mr. Harry Vile, of Norton Folgate, obtain any rent from his sub- Bishopsgate, said that he could not

Many fugitives from Gardez base taken refuge in British territory.

PROTECTING EXCHANGE.

SPANISH CURRENCY

MEASURES.-

(THROUGH "AKUTER'B, AGENCY,]

MADRID, June 30. The Government. has decided to re-introduce the gold standard at the most opportune moment. The revalorisation of the currency will be simultaneously carried out.

The Government has renewed the credits arranged last year with a syndicate of British bankers and contemplates accepting offers of further credits from various coun- tries, with a view to protecting the exchange by the acquisition of a'l Pesetas offered to it at the current rate of exchange, as it is convinced that the intrinsic value of the peseta is much higher than the pre- sent rate implies.

Protective industrial

րէ

measures

tenants.

"

I am an old soldier,” he added, and a little political, and when one of my sub-tenants came into the house he was a rank Communist He started singing The Red Flag' 1. the passage which annoyed me. so sang Old Soldiers Never Die

Judge Thompson, K.C.: Yes, that is very good.

Mr. Durant: I could not beat him physically, but I could morally. Judge Thompson: Yes. a. ser- Avant-major's voice carries

Mr. Durrant: Quite, and I used a few of my own words which were necessary.

Mr. Durrant, said that he would go out, of the house in one month and pay the arrears as he was a man of honour.

Judge Thompson Thas is the spirit.

14 DEATHS CAUSED BY A NEEDLE.

DRUG TRAGEDY OF CAIRO.

VENGEANCE CRY IN HOSPITAL WARD.

not be limited strictly to a party basis. This fol lows, the precedent of 1924.

It is understood that, the decision is a manifestation of the Cabinet's

deliberate policy to conduct their administration on national and not on party lines.

The Obercer says the policy naturally follows from the Govern ment'e but none the less it is re-

garded in itself as being highly de- sirable by diplomatic opinion.

£50,000 CLAIM OF U.S. ** VENUS."

DOROTHY KNAPP SUES EARL

CARROLL

CONSPIRACY,

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WAS

Miss Dorothy Knapp, who was billed by Earl Carroll as **The Most Beautiful Woman in the World," End whose place subsequently taken by another actress in the leading role of the musical comedy. "Fioretta," which closed its run recently, has brought a law suit for 850,000 damages.

A co-defendant with Mr. Carroll is Mrs. Anne Wainwright-Penn- field, who is described as the finɛt- cial backer of the enterprise...

Miss Knapp's action is for conspiracy to damage her reputa- tion as an artist.

Miss Dorothy Knapp rose from the ranks of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, and was acclaimed four years in successions the most beauti- ful girl in America Artists "hailed her as a modern Venus.

GEORGE EATS HIS WAY TOA CUP

BUT FAILS TO WIN THE PING-PONG TITLE.

UNINVITED GUEST,

One of the strangest dramas in the drug stricken Underworld

A ping-pong duel was fought out.. reached its climax in Cairo recent-at the Memorin Hall, Farringdon

eastern United States have been broke out shortly before noon, when will be formulated with the obiectly, when a number of dying per-street, before thirty-one spectators

filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission.

They embrace a merger of n number of railways. The proposed ine wi have western termini at Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City Omaha, and Des Moines, and eastern at New York, Philadelphia,

re

and Baltimore.

eines in this part of the country.

There are at present four trunk

Baron Tanaka will proceed to the It averred that Yen told Palace to-morrow morning to sub- Chiang at their recent interview it his resignation to the Throne.. that Feng Yu Hsiang has definitely) New Oommander In Kwantung." decided to go abroad and he has It is officially announced that instructed the various Generais of Lieut-General Hata has been in- the Kuominchun to obey the Censtalled Commander of the Japanese tral Government. The affairs of Garrison in Kwantung in succes to Lieut.-General Muraoka, the North-West Provinces were not kion

who has resigned as his own re- iscussed during the interview.

quest"

FENG'S NEW JOB!

Wah Te Fat Pas.)

Though the reason for Lieut.. Ceneral Muraokale resignation is not stated. it is understood to be due to his desire to take respon SHANGHAI, July I.sibility for the failure to take Feng Yu Hsiang's first destina necessary precautions to prevent tion will be Japan, and he and his the Chang Tao Lin bomb outrage. party will later sail for Germany.

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The Central Government, it said, wil soon confer the title upon him of Investigation Deputy of Industries.

A

Feng Yu Heiang and Yen Hsi Shan have booked, bertha" on Japanese steamer and will leave Tangku for Moji an the 5th, inst.

TIENTSIN CONCESSION.

BELGIAN RENDITION

SUSPENDED

ENDURANCE ATTEMPT

ABANDONED.

REFUELLING "CAUSES

TROUBLE.

REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

"NEW YORK, July 1 Mr. and Mra: Martin Jensen and Mr. William Ulbrich have abandon ed their endurance flight attempt They were unable to refuel owing TTENTHIN, July 1 to ** bumpiness" in the atmos. On account of ill-feeling aroused "phere.

(NAN CHUNG KUO NEWS SERVICE.]

THE "NUMANCIA "

RESCUE..

JUBILATION STILL CONTINUES.

(THROUGH REUTER'B AGENCY.]

MADRID, June 30, " Rejoicing continues throughout Spain over the rescue of the

Numancia."

Every available British, French,, Italian and Portuguese ng has been commandeered for a monster demonstration, organised by the Spanish Aero Club, and parti fpated in by many thousands, be- leging the four Embassies to ex- press their appreciation of the na- sistance in the search by means of uproarious applause.

Widespread Joy.

Their Majesties, who motored from Windsor, were due to take their

the Albert Hall. scats' in the open State Carriage at

There was a great send-off at Windsor, where a bugle sounding the Royal Salate announced to the citizens thranging streets, windows, and roofs, that Their Majesties were leaving the castle.

of strengthening the commercial balance.

sona lying in rows in the Kas- rolaini hospital raised themselves for a moment in swear vengeance on the man who was the cause of their plight.

The door of the ward opened-- SINKING COIN IN A WELL. and the man himself was wheeled in to take his place in one of the beds amid the shouts of execration of his victims.

LONDON WORKMAN'S ELUSIVE HALF- CROWN.

"D.P." Special Service.]

Police Mystified. Police, who have been raiding known drug centres in the Boulac district of the city, have been A mighty cheey went up mingled

mystified during the past few days with cries of. Good Luck, Your

One of the deepest wells in Lon-by the number of persons found Majesty and "Good Health."

lying unconscious in the streets. The King was attired in a silk don, which when finished, will be Empty packets of the deadly drug hat and morning dress, and the more than 560 feet deep, is being herein were found beside the inert Queen in a fur-trimmed coat of bored underneath the Savoy Hotel died, the cause of death was found bodies, but when fourteen persons cream and gold.

Both were obviously delighted at to provide 13,000 gallons of water to be malignant malaria. their welcome.

An hour.

anophiles mosquito, the carrier of malaria germs, is not known in

Kensington's "Gala Day. The Royal Borough of Kensing ton was in gala dress.

High Street was a blaze of flags One building flew the emblems of all the British Dominions and

crowd, Their

Colonies.

Majesties, on arrival at the Albert

Unseen by the

Hall at roon, changed into an open andau and entered Kensington Gardens, amid tumultuous cheere.

King's Gratitude,

Another 400 feet have to be bored before it is finished, but the work is being relieved by a comic element.

the district.

The

recently.

To be strictly_nzenrate, there were thirty-one spectators until George, a wire-haired fox terrier, arrived.

George made the thirty-second spectator, and he ate three ping- pong balls in the rat five minutes. After that he settled down to enjoy himself, mot caring i bark who wor

Rata!"

He just waited behind, a "table, and pretended that every balk that rolled under the chairs was a rat

One mishit, which rebounded off

a player, shot out of the door and duwa the stairs.

triumph, to the front door, and

George chased it, with a yelp, of - fought the commissionaire for it.

He was on it before I could say Entfe," said the commissionaire, and he swallowed it like a pill" At 4 p.m. George was Ted out On a chain He had "swollen A statement issued by the direc-visibly," having eaten at least ten tor of the new Narcotics Bureau ping-pong balls. He should have A few days ago a workman drop-stated that the infection has been

has deared up the mystery. It is been awarded the cup. ped half a crown on the watery bed traced to dirty hypodermic needles accompanied ever since by a con- of the well. The boring has been used to inject the drug., "These needles were used continuously stant search for the missing coin, which is still at the ever-descending bottom of the well.

The balf-crown has sunk more His Majesty's bronzed face, light than 100 feet since it was lost. step, and the manner in which he! helped the Queen into the carriage; showed his strength was quite, rEB- tored.

STABBING AFFAIR.

MAORI FATALLY WOUNDED

"

LONDON, July 1 The Great pro-British demon. Waves of cheering burst from the strations being held in Spain as a loyal multitude waiting anxiously consequence of the H.M.S. Eagle's to see for themselves how the King rescue of the missing airmen are looked, The King repeatedly rais now echoed in the Western hemised his hat, and the Queen bowed phere.

in response to the welcome. Immed- istely be arrived at the Palace the In a stabbling affair in South King issued the following message: Eldon Street, South Shields,” re

At Buenos Aires thousands joined in spontaneous demonstrations on Saturday, on feceipt of the news of the Numancia rescue. Crowds paraded the flag-draped streets shouting "Vives for King George, the British Admiralty and Navy..

Bluejackets on H.M.S. Durban, now in harbour, were licnised when they landed, and there special demonstration in front of the British Legation

WES &

I wish to express by heart felt gratitude at the most affectionate and enthusiastic wel- come which I received on return ing after long months of illness to the capital of My Empire."

Wonderful Scente,

LATER.

IN STREET.

cently, a Maori named George Frankie, aged 36, was killed, and two Arabs who are believed to be implicated disappeared.

without heing washed, and the Telegrams in Brief. inalaria brought, by one person from an outlying district was thus conveyed to every person on whom. the acedle was used.

The latest victim is a woman who was found dead in the street, but the epidemic is not yet over, and more deaths are expected.....

THE WISE-HAIRED TERRIER.

JACK A STORY WITH AN UNHAPPY ENDING.

A conference of experts has con- cluded that the recent earthquaker In the Wellington, N.2., area were merely a normal manifestation of the release of the Earth's strenses and nothing exceptional in pheno mena, geologically-considered. The opinion is expressed that the stresses were relieved over such a wide area that major disturbancez in the immediate future along the same fault are unlikely.

Ад Asheville, N.C., message says that the Dutch. Enka has acquired control of the Glanzztoff plants, which have a daily output of 130,000 lbs.

'The Polish Stato Tribunal havo unanimously postponed Czechowitz trial until the Diet is furnished with the estimated amount which is

Logoroun (Ireland). Jack, a little wire-haired terrier, and the favourite dog of Mr. James Ledwith, a farmer, of Legan, bas

Captain Frank Hawkes flew to just added another wonderful page New York, on his return flight from to the history of canine sagacity. Frankie, who was a runner at a Mr. Ledwith was working alone Los Angeles, in 17 hours 39 minutes seamen's boarding-house, was seen at a bayrick when it collapsed and Aying time. buried him, Their Majesties appeared on the to be in a quarrel with the two

He lay there for twenty-four At Mexico City the Spanish balcony of Burkingham Palace a Arabs, and one of the Arabs is hours before Jack's instinct told colony demonstrated in front of the few minutes after their return. A alleged to have drawn a knife and him something was wrong. British Legation. Cheers were rais crowd estimated at 100,000 sang stabbed

The dog tore frantically at the Frankie in the body hay, and in two hours had bored ed for King George, and im- God Save the King, led by the in connection with the Tests The landed. at Roosevelt Field prompta speeches made to which Guards Band, then broke out into Frankie collapsed, and was rushed in tunnel through to his master. Fredag in Bioflavin

Lecklist pricom the in two Belgian-cient” V. The Cam""" ar suturing evenmigo J

farmer from Bullocation was renewed when someone brought died shortly after admission, pany being hurt in a recent dis learned of the seriousness of Miss replied.

High American naval officials in Princess Elizabeth on the balcony,

availing for Mr. Ledwith died The police are searching the dis, while the dog was raising the Washington warmly praise the and the Queen took the baby in her

it's fine work.

alarm. trist for the two mixing Arabs.

pute, the negotiations for the retro Viola "Gentry's condition when he cession of the Belgian Cancersion have been temporarily suspended.

fanded.

aris.

UDF

alleged to have spent without being authorised.

Mr. Unruhov ean flyer, has returned to London He plans to start on another tour to Japan after his return from America