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CHINA AT THE AMSTERDAM CONGRESS.

WINNING WORDS AND ROSY PROSPECTS FOR INVESTORS?

RAILWAYS AND OTHER TRANSPORT NEEDS.

The Christian Service Monitor gives the following account of the review of China's economic and industrial aims presented "hy ber delegates to the International Chamber of Commerce congress held recently at Amsterdam.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929.

SITUATION MUCH EASIER.

FORMAL CONFERENCE

PLANNED,

PEACE IN SIGHT.

(ah Te: Fat Poo),

SHANGHAI, Aug. 3.

A Harbin telegram state that

THE COMING OF SOCIALISM.

MR. MAXTON CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT.

"SPLIT UP THE EMPIRE."

[THBOUGE REUTER'S AGENCT.) ··

LONDON, Aug. 5.

EX-MILLIONAIRE'S

SUICIDE.

FIERCE PRIDE IN AN ART COLLECTION.

HEAVY BUSINESS LOSSES.

(THROUGH REUTIE'S AGENCT.)

SIDE BY SIDE

FRIENDSHIP.

IN

SCOUTS OF ALL NATIONS AT WORSHIP.

A THRILLING CLIMAX.

(TRIDUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.)

LONDON, August 4.

GRAF. ZEPPELIN AT LAKEHURST.

A CHANGE of course NECESSARY.

WINDS UNFAVOURABLE.

an understanding has been reached for centuries for Socialism," de- established textile company, Simon Britain's ultimatum, boy scouts, p.m.

The congress heard the Chinese delegates with the greatest sympathy, but the opinion was frankly expressed that China must give better security in the future" than she has done in the past, or is doing at present, for a return to foreign investors. Amsterdam-Twelve prominent duties estimated at $270,000,000. Chinese, headed by Chang Kia China, thrice the size of European Ngau, governor bf the Bank of Russia, wants increasing quantities China, have come from Tientsin to of petroleum, machinery, sugar, attend the fifth biennial congress flour, paper, manufactured silk, of the International Chamber of wool, cotton textiles and is pre- Commerce, which has opened a seven-days group session here.

They will lay proposals before the world's big business" men for Russia, by the way is not repre- the development and reconstruction seated at the congress but it believes to avoid of China. So immense is China's it will be admitted in 1931 if Great programme and so sympatheticallyBritain and the United States has it been received that already establish diplomatie relations with there is indication that it will cloud the Soviet before that date. if it does not eclipse the vexatious tariff barriers problems, now before the congress which have been so difficult of solution in the past and which are at present topics of such tense discussion in Europe and the

by the Chinese and Raisin repre- sentatives, both promising to nego ip accordance with the tiate

Agreement" and to settle the dispute. by peaceful messures.

The situation is much easier, and pared to export abundant quanti-it has been decided to hold the ties of silk, tungsten, tin, anti-

United States.

We are not prepared to wait

clared Mr. Maxton, M.P., in his inaugural speech at the Labour Party's summer school at Digswell Park, Hertfordshire.

BERLIN, Aug. 5.. Herr Simon, head of the old-

Brothers, has committed suicide, presumably as a result of beary Anancial losses.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

LAKEHURST, August 4.

On the fifteenth anniversary of The Graf Zeppelin landed at 8.52

The Naval Air Station at Lake- some of them sons of the men who then butchered one another, stood

side by side ja Arrows Park wor

His liabilities are estimated at shipping, as brothers in thanks £1,000,000, but friends propose to giving services conducted by the

avoid Archbishop of Canterbury

and

He added that the Govern ment's two months record was reorganise the Arm very diappointing. They must liquidation.

disarmament, Baid Herr Simon's art collection wILS Maxton, who expressed of very great value, and the idea opinion

defence of parting with it had depressed

insist

Mr. the

tpon

that the

mony, oil and other products. forthcoming parley at Chita, and for armaments in peace time,him, it is said.

Some idea of China's needs is offered by the Association of Na tional Chambers of Commerce in the Orient whose survey the China of to-day" is being studied. by Silos P. Strawn, Chicago, Robert E Olds, ex-Assistant Secre- While in two years there havetary of State now presiding over been no important tarif increases in any of the 38 countries with which the International Chamber of Commerce is affiliated, Egypt, Finland, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, as well as the United States, now contemplate higher customs duties, and it will contribute to the general world tranquillity if the awaken ing of China's. need of modernities and her importunity stills discord. For

new China, according to Chang Kia Ngau and bis associates, is projecting, for instance, seven groups of railways, to consist of 100 main lines and 12 important branches, with a total package of

100,000 miles.

the Carnegie Institute of Interna- tional Peace, Paris, J. R. Carter, partner in Morgan & Co.. Paris, and similarly distinguished repre- rentatives in Germany, France. Belgium, Great Britain, Italy and Japan with a view of presentation at the full plenary session of the congress. Thus, for instance in all China's vast area, despite her teeming millions there are only 160 flour mille with a total daily capa- city, of 120,000 barrels: 400 electric generating stations with a total production of 250 kilowatts.

Powers,

intervention by

the when reduced to a bal analysis, was that they were required to protect the Empire. The Socialist Government should break up the Empire into its constituent parts as soon as possible.

Mr. Tai Yun Sheng told Press. men to-day that according to the Russian representative, the Soviet Government has, notifed the Rus sian troops at the Manchurian and Russian border to refrain from entering into Chinese territory, and from committing any overt net.

in

Russian Request Refused. It is atated diplomatic circles that the Nanking Foreign Office has despatched a telegram to Chu Shao Yang instructing him to proceed to Harbin,

Replying to Mr. George Bernard Shaw regarding the cotton industry crisis, Mr. Maxton said the Govern- ment was empowered to declare a state of emergency,"

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A FORTUNE FROM AMERICA.

Cardinal Bourne.

and

Lord Baden Powell stood by the side of the Archbishop who asked the "Almighty's blessing for this world-wide company, in which Lord Baden Powell's dream has been ful- alled...

An absolute deluge swamped the felds and many of the boys collap sed. But there was a thrilling GERMAN TOWN'S DEBTS AND climax when the scouts, bareheaded and with upraised hands, gave the scout promise to do their best.

TAXES PAID.

Outside the gates of Berlin a festival was celebrated recently which should warm the hearts of those who write the libretti for musical comedies. The setting was PACT SLUMP IN SOUTH the supremely beautiful Spreewald

AFRICA.

NATIONALIST HOPES FOR

ELECTION.

country, the Spree woodsforests cut by so many waterways that the rowing boat is used in precisely the same fashion as the Venetian gon- dola,

It is also reported that the Rus sian Government demanded the

The reason for this festival was Sir Abe Bailey, who arrived in release of the Russian officers, ar London from South Africa recent-such as to satisfy even the most reated at Harbin, as a condition of

Reuter representative romantica citizen of the little ly, told a a formal conference being held. that when he left South Africa it town of, Vetschau went to America The Chinese authorities refused, looked as if General Smuts was

years ago and has left his native on the ground that the arrested likely to lead the South African place a very comfortable fortune in For 65 years there has always been Russians, who are 39 in number, Party to victory at the recent dollars. So much, indeed, that, and the estimate for 1928 placed and mutt be tried by the Chinese. an excess of imports over exports are propagandists of Communiem, General Election. and the

American Engineers Active. American engineers are now sur- veying the route Nanking Shantung

via Fukien to cost 8183,525,000; Fakien Kangtun (Foochow Schinchow via Nanchang), to cost 875,230,000; Kangtung-Yuannan to cost 8133,213,000. In addition to three, there are 10, other lines which bring the total cost to $1,104,000,000 The longest proposed line, Sang tung-Yannan will extend 1819 miles, and the shortest, Tsangchow Shilebiachung 138 miles.

New railroads, however, are only part of the world's commodities of which China evinces a need. It

Batter Roads Needed. China's imports in 1927, the sur- very shows, aggregated 8739,873,000, while her exports were 8688,961,000.

LIU CHEN NIEN IN

NANKING.

amount thus lost at some 873,500,000. The derriand for judicial court, American and European motor-care it is said would be stimulated by the building of better roads in China where only 25,600 are HOW in use on 10,752 miles of dirt high- ways. Investigators report that increased use of motor-cars would follow the construction of good roads in China and that wagons have opened up scores of hitherto isolated towns and villages.

The new Administration

(Wah Tez Fat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, Aug. 5. General Liu Chen Nien hoa ar

inrived in Nazking to ste Marshal

FRENCH DIPLOMATIC

wants improved highways, desert China, the delegates say, desires to irrigation, and reclamation of waste land. China needs to build extend telephone and telegraph Chiang Kai Shek regarding the ships, schools, factories electric systems and post office facilities. disbandment and reorganization of plants; flour mills, and she needs At present, there are only 40,000 bis troops.. farmers; in short, the fulling of subscribers to telephones in all the nationalist ideals of the late China. The Aeronautical Associa- Dr. Sun Yat Sen when te founded tion of China is arranging to start the Kuomintang party. Regions mail airplane lines from Shanghai through which the proposed rail to Hankow, from Canton to Tze- ways will run are said to be rich chuan i Bankow, from Peping in minerals, including coal, anti- to Haukow and from Peping to mony, tungsten, tin, and also in Shanghai, three of which will be carrying mail pussengers by the end agricultural products, such

of this year. wheat, live stock, cotton, silk, harles, peanuta, rice, soya beans, and poultry.

Bonds to be Ioned.

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China is sending an important delegation to Poland in September to the International Air Transport Conference.

CHANGES.

NEW CONSULS IN CHINA

·

"If the Pact had gone to the country eighteen months ago," said Sir Abe, they would have swept the country, but the Pact stock has fairly slumped the last twelve months.

**The Labour section of the Pact, with members with nose-bags' on,”

he continued, is passing through

a crisis, the extent of which it is impossible to exaggerate. The roots of the Party have gone; they are now like Bowers in a vase, of no political value to the Nationalists.

Curbed Livelineza... "Colonel Creswell claims that the Labour Party has steadied the Nationalists. It is like tying live mouse to the tail of a cat in order to curb its liveliness. The public resent the Nationalist lead era attacking and abusing Generál Smuts with adjectives from the mustard pol."

{

[THEOUGH HAVAS AGENCY.)..

PAR16, August 4. H.E. Count D. de Martel, Envoye, The native question, Sir Abe Extraordinaire et Minister Pleai- Bailey said, should first be dealt potentiaire at Peping, has been with by a National Convention. named a First-Class Plenipoten Failing that, by all means go out for closing the voting register to the native. It is sure to lead to calamity if natives continue to vote side by side with the white races.

In order to facilitate construc Other projects include: making tion of the first 25,000 miles of rail-more- navigable the River Yangtse, way China's delegation proposes over which 60 per cent of the for- the issuance of two categories of eign commerce is shipped. and bonds, are to be guaranteed by the; similar treatment of the Yellow Boxer Indemnity Fund returned to Sikiang and Amur Risers, Dr. China by Great Britain, Russia and Alberto Pirelli will head this tiary,

45 of Chinese Italy amounting to 8139,580,000" committee of

affairs." and the other secured by customs

PRES. HOOVER" INFRINGES THE LAW:

VIRGINIA SENATOR

INDIGNANT.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5,

A declaration has been issued by Senator C. E. Swanson of Virgini to the effect that President Hoover

་་

FAMOUS ECONOMIST

DEAD.

DAME MILLICENT FAWCETT.

{TELODGE REUTER'A AGENCY.)

LONDON, August 4.

The death is announced of Dame Millicent Fawcett

proceeded contrary to the law" in directing the suspension of work on three cruisers, and asserting that Congress had given its plain [Dame Fawcett, who was born in mandate for the cruisers' construc-1847, was the widow of the Rt. Hon. tion.

Henry Fawcett, one-time Poetmaster- General. She was regarded as ant authority on political economy on which subject she wrote voluminous- Ir. She also wrote on many other matters, including The Life of Queen Victoria," and other bio- graphies.

DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN

INVENTOR.

MR. EXILE BERLINER.

[REUTEB'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

New Yox, Aug. 5.

Her sister was the famous doctor Mra Garett Anderson, the first Her woman mayor in England.

The death is announced of Mr. only child, Philippa Carret Faw- Emile Berliner, the inventor of the cett, had a distinguished carcer telephonic gramophone,

where in 1890 she was bracketed

M.

Yves Louis Napoleon de Courthial, Consul at Singapore, has been appointed Coagul at Fort

Said,

.

M. Sudreau, First Dragoman at Bombay, is to take charge of the French Consulate at Singapore.

M. Chalant, Firat Dragomar at Bangkok, is to take charge of the Consulate at Bombay."

M. J. Meyrier, Consul-General at Shanghai, has been named for the Consulate at Tientsin.

at

M. Levi, Consul at Tientsin, has Lecs samed Assistant Consul Shanghai.

BELGIAN SEA TRAGEDY.

NINE LOST IN OSTEND COLLISION.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]'

OSTEND, August 4. Nine were drowned and 20 alight transmitter and the at Newnham College, Cambridge, ly injured in a collision between a [Mr. Berliner was born in Has equal to the Senior Wrangler. In excursion steamer and & motor beat, over in 1851 and went to America 1906 she became principal assistant All were Belgians. at the age of 18. After his inven- in the Education Officer's Depart- tion of the telephone, transmitter ment.of the LO.C... In 1920, Mrs.

The motor boat, with 50 aboard,

his gramophone, now known as the Fawcett was made a justice of the sank immediately, but boats raced Victor Talking Machine, was pro. peace and on January 1, 1925, was to the resCUS,

The skipper of the motor beat wAS duced in its first form. Mr. Ber-created a Dame of the Order of the liner had also made several in. British Empire. She also received provements in aeroplane engine an hon. degree (LL.D.) from. St. rescued by his own son, who was in

Andrew's University.]

charge of another motor boat. cylinders.]

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"The German trade treaty has damaged the Pact prospects. Many consider it a slap in the face of the Empire All producers, and the fruit growers particularly, are very nervour of losing the English

market.

The Insulted Flag. "The compromise on the fag question has insulted a large section of the people, and Colonel Creswell will never be forgiven for hauling. down the Union Jack from the old Castle in Cape Town, where it has Bown for a hundred years.

after letting the citizens off taxes this year and paying off the debts incurred during recent bad seasons, Vetschau had sufficient over to arrange an exhibition of the "na- tive produce and feast and dance for three days.

Students of European civilica- tions still delight in these Wendish

villages and towns which form cases of archaeological interest in the flat wood-and-water country of the Brandenurg plains. The pic- turesque costume of the Spreewald inhabitants has survived, it would "appear, chiefly through the difficul ties of outside communication be. fore the days of the automobile. The men are fishers; the women of the family have always contribut- ed to its support.

Owing, it is to be presumed to the healthy country life and the survival of the tradition of Rous- seau, the wet-nurses of former generations in Berlin were all drawn from the neighbourhood. Later, ordinary children's nurses adopted the costume. To-day the -voluminous starched white petti- coats and large white lace cape are making way even among the most fashionable for the English child- ren's nurse's uniform. Bat they are still a delight to the eye, if not to the washing bill, and they will never vanish entirely as long as wealthy parvenus look upon E menial clad in such luxury of linen ble sign of prosperity.

and lace as an outward and visi

"DOCKYARD PRIEST

BEATIFIED.

CELEBRATIONS IN ROME!

The last of this year's beatifica- tions has taken place at Saint Peter's. On the feast of St. Peter nad St. Paul Brother Francesco Racialis, that tired and weary of Camporosso, of the Capuchin hare, is not being chased in this Order, was beatified in the morn- election. Anti-British feeling, Being, and in the evening Pope Pius publicanism and secession are all passing out of our life, as I knew it would, for the Dutch honourable people.

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XL came down into the basilica, where a crowd of over 10,000 wel- comed the Pontiff. The basilica was brilliantly illuminated and the statue of the apostle was clothed in rich crimson robes.

"I can testify to that, for all the verbal agreements I had in the past with their great lenders, from The beatified Brother was born in President Kruger to General Hert- 1899 and led a saintly life, preach- zog, were carried out serupulously. ing among the dockyard workers at South Africans, both Dutch and Genoa. His two miracles approved English, have said their birthright by the Court were performed in through not working. They have 1924 on a girl who fell from a bal- lost their economic hold on the cony to the ground and had been country, and it is only by working given up for dead. Upon embrac hard and working together. that ing a relic of Brother Francis ahe they will hold their own.

was restored to health. Similarly Generals Botha, Smuts and a young man suffering from acute Hertzog bave carried South Africa appendicitis was completely healed. to the highest pinnacle she has. This is the first occasion on which ever reached, and now moral the healing of appendicitis has been people of South Africa on the paintings. portraying the two mir- strength is required in guiding the the reason for beatification. Large course on which they are launched."acles were hung in Saint Peter's.

The mud was so deep that a cater- pillar tractor was needed to drag the Archbishop's car along the road.

LIVERPOOL AERODROME.

COMBINED LAND & SEA.-

'PLANE BASE UNLIKELY.

hurst received notice at 12.45 that" the Graf Zeppelin was heading towards Cape May, Philadelphia, owing to adverse weather, but later the Zeppelin decided not to make for Philadelphia in view of the un- favourable winds there

1.

SHOOTING GALLERY

ATTENDANT INJURED BY

BULLET.

.

James Cairns (19), 32, Queen's

Street, Rhyl, an attendant at a shooting gallery at Pleasureland, Rhyl, was injured by a bullet while a patron was attempting to adjust a rife which had jammed.

The bullet entered Cairn'a breast, und a doctor. who happened to be u near by at, the time ordered his removal to the Infirmary.

It is understood that an X-ray photograph revealed that the bullet had lodged in a lung. Cairns, who is in a critical condition, stated that the affair was a

pare ac- eidert.

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In a report on the question of the establishment of a municipal TAR BLAZE IN STREET, aerodrome for Liverpool the Town Cleck (Mr. Walter Moon) says that the cost of preparing a site at While a Corporation tar-boiler Speke would be approximately was being worked in Daleroes £10,830, and it might take ten Street, Cardiff, the tar caught fre. months to complete the filling of and Rames quickly spread. all the pits. The possibility of a barrels of tar were split by the combined aerodrome and seaplane beat, their contests oozing out and station had been discussed, but no adding fuel to the outbreak. Half cal advantage had been found, and the terrified horse from the boiler. site possessing the necessary physi-a dozen workmen helped to releneo Michael the cost of building a seawall and trolley, one of them. The constructing a marine lake at Speke Morissey, sustaining burrs. would be so expensive as to render Cardiff Fire Brigide eventually that suggestion impracticable.

Lquelled the fire.

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