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BRITISH COTTON CRISIS.

LORD DERBY MAY BE

MEDIATOR..

[HROUGH REVTEN'S AGENCE.}"

LONDON, ALS

At a full Delegate Meeting of the Operative Spinners Amalgne mation, held at Manchester to-day. it was decided by a substantial mi- jority to

turn down, the recoms mendation of the Executive Com- mitte to re-oper negotiations for a settlement of the cotton dispute, La Dorby is mentioned as the possible mediator in the dispute.

OSTEND COLLISION VICTIMS.

ELEVEN PEOPLE DEAD.

(TUROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.]

OSTEND, Ang. 3.

It has now been ascertained that eloven people are dead, half a dozen are missing, and twenty-three are injured as the result of the colli

sidin yesterday.

All the victims are Belgians. The collision cured between an xcamion steamer and a motor- hoat carrying ifty passengers.

STRENGTH OF WHITE RUSSIANS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1929.

TO HONOUR · "MARYLAND PIONEERS.

20.000 IN THE AMUR REGION. | BRONZE IN MEMORY OF ARK

AND DOVË.

According to the Shanghai papers the military exploits ct the

Cowes, Isle of Wight.-Another White Russians are assuming link is Anglo-American friendship alarming proportious. A total of over 40,000 well-equipped "White" be offered to and accepted |

laateers, commanded mostly by the town ecugeil of Cowee.

Miss Alethea Serpell of Norfolk, theers of the former Imperial Va., de behalf of the people of Army of Russia, is reported to bearyland, has offered to erret a concentrating in the Amar region brouze tablet on the Cowes sea with a view to making that part front to commemorate the depor at Siberin into an autonomous Rusture of the sailing ships Ark and sian territory. The Whites" Are Deve in which English voyagers reported to be loyally supported sought the New World in the year the peasants throughout the entire

10. The pioneers eventually land eastern part of Russin

INSPECTOR AND ·

CHAUFFEUR.

INDIAN COMPLAINS OF JEERING.

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TRAFFIC CONSTABLE'S ODD BEHAVIOUR.

PLEA FOR A NEW

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CHINA POLICY.

SOME STRAIGHT TALKING.

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IR. J. O. P. BLAND ON NANKING.

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The Soviet authorities are fured at Maryland and founded St.dence, said that he saw defendant Sir Austen Chamberlain saw fit to

ther handicapped by the fact that part of the Ussuri Railway has been destroyed by the White Rus- sians and cannot effectively carry OUL a campaign of suppression against the latter.

Mary's in 10

Numerous Maryland people, said Misa Serpoll, would come over for families tracing their descent from the opening ceremony, including pioneers of the Ark and the Dove. she herself tracing her family back to Lord Baltimore, Trom whom REDS" AND WHITES ON the name of Maryland's great city

was taken.

THE BORDER.

Telegrams in Brief. Changchun and Hailar

to

BARROW THREATENED WITH TRANSPORT STRIKE.

NEW TRAMWAYS - MANAGER

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It Mr. Ramsay MacDonald wishes An Indian public vehicle driver was before 3r. T. S. Whyte Smith to demonstrate the superior states. for causing obstration ucar at Kowloon Magistracy yesterdaymanship of his Government aver Star Ferry pier, Kowloon, and

the that of his predecessor, the China soliciting passengers,

question offers him an excellent Defendant pleaded not guilty to opportunity, writes Mr. J. O. P. Bland in a Home paper. For the both counts.

Sub-Inspector MaeWalter in evi shvation which has developed since in his car near the Star Ferry pier condone the "Nanking outrages, be- as he (witness) left the boat. Some cause of his desire not to embar- ensa the Nationalist Government in time and defendant beckoned to their task of introducing order in Chinese ladies were passing at the them. Witness went up to defend the territory under their entrol." ant and told him he would be aum- has now reached a stage which mat moned. Witness also reported the in the near future necessitate n Tadian constable on duty for allow.ebeice between two alternatives- ing defendant to remain in front viz., complete

Glad I Have Caught You." Defendant denied that he spoke to any Chinese women and stated that he had just arrived at the Ferry Wharf with some passengers He was obliged to wait because the signal was against him.

abandonment

of the Ferry Wharf. This constable, British trade, property, and vested had since been reprimanded.

interests in China, or firm insistence upon maintenance of the safeguards Treaties and respect for the conimen provided for them in existing decencies of international inter- course. It is say that the future relations of the no exaggeration to

Oriental nations, with the rest of the world and the future of the British Empire as an Asiatic Power will be determined, for better or for worse, by the policy which Mr. MacDonald and President Hoover decide to adopt in dealing with the latest demands of the Nationalist Government for the abolition of extra-territoriality and the with. drawal of all foreign armed for es from Chinese territory.

to accuse

Defendant went 011 Inspector MacWalter of jeering at him and saying "I am very glad I have caught you at last after hear ing a lot about you for the past two months."

A further message states that the family

the feud between White and the Red Russians, which has caused no little conster nation along the border districts, has prompted the Manchurian authorities to make further pre- parations to meet any emergency. One Additional brigade each frem the Liaoning, Kirit and Hellurg-, kiang provincial forces has been A dispute between the new man. dispatched respectively to Isinan, uger of the Barrow Corporation rein-Tramways' and the men under his charge threatens to cause a strike of the 'hus and tramway meg, and the stoppage of the services.

The local branch of the Trans- port and General Workers' Union while on the eastern border Suifen has called upon the National Exec ho will be the first defensive positive to authorise a local strike in

and tyrannous oppression which has The chaos of lawlessness, renality. tion of the Manchurian forces. protest against the introduction of outsiders as bus drivers on the

A Revised Version.

brought the Kuomintang adminis tration into undeniable disrepnte Corporation buses In preference Defendant then pointed to an to men alreads in the department, Indian constable in Court and said itself good and sufficient ground for with the Chinese people affords in and aleo against the alleged atti-that he (the constable) was on duty abandoning the policy of patient tide of the manager in refusing to at the Star Ferry Wharf at the time. conciliation which has done infinite call together the Works Committee He wished to call him to say whe-harm and no good to anyone except set up by the Corporation total ther the signal was or was not with disputes.

a handful of self-seeking politicians, If Mr. MacDonald and his ol

force the defence force there.

On the western border the first line of defence will be situated at The death has occngrer in Vienna Manehuli, the second line at Hai. of Herr von Welsbach,, the inventoran, and the third line at Hailar,

of the incanderent gas-mantle.

In view of the increasing num- ber of cholera uses in Shanghai the Japanese authorities have de cided to declare Shanghai an in- ferted port from the 8th instant, after, which date all ships from Shanghai will be quarantined and

the importation of foodstuffs and drinkables from that port be pro- hibited.

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The Soviet troops have further advanced their positions having been reinforced. by a mixed brigade of infantry, artillery and cavalry. A total of 19 Soviet bombers is now reported to be in service along the

order."

The increased military netivity of the Soviet is explained in "some quarters as indicative of the deter- Kaye Don, driving a Sunbeam,ination of the Moscow Govern has stablished a new flying lap ment to exterminate the Whites" track record at Brooklands, exceed- ing 13 miles an hour.

Lord Byng, the Chief Comus- sidner of the Metropolitan Police, has promoted fifty uniformed po tive to augment the Criminal Ing vestigation Department at Scotland Yurdu order to meet the growing znete of motor bandits.

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JAPANESE MOVEMENTS!

Acording to Chinese reports! additional Japanese troops have been moved to the region along the South Manchuria Railway.

(Continued on next Column).

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It is stated that 500 Japanese troops have departed from Shen yang for Changchun, white a de- tachinert of another 1,500 is now on its way from Koren via the An- tungerailway.

Offcial circles are 'nt a loss to explain Japan's military activities in South Manchuria at a time when peace negotiations are about to be started between Russia and China.

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Inspector MacWalter, denied hav ing said anything of the kind and pointed out that defendant had only been driving a public vehicle for a month. He had been convicted once before when he used to drive a pri vate car.

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and by its silence gave consent to 3. Evening programe. that friendly policy," "devised by (Columbia records supplied by the F.O. school of thought, which Messrs, Anderson Music Co., Ltd.). Zampa (Herold), Overture, Sir Da Godiny and the Bourne mouth Muciipal Orchestra. "I'm Thirsty For Kisses Hungry For Love" and "I Wasn't Meant To Be, Centralto, Betty Bolton. Sleufried (Wagner), Grand Fantasy, Band of the Garde Republicaine.

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friendly response from a Chinese was presently to evoke an equally- Government, freed from foreign vote itself to the single-minded domination; and thus enabled to de- rice of the interests of the Chir

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Plunderers All.

Two years have passed since the Foreign Secretary placed on record, in this amazing utteraner, his com-

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in E." Cello Solo, W. H. plete misconception of China and Due to sall to SINGAPORE, BELAWAN.DELI and Squire.

the Chinese.. The policy thus "Tannhauser - Grand March cnunciated was bound to lend to

(Wagner) and "The Prophes-disastrous, results, for it runs Offers Coronation 31arch," Royal counter to all the knowledge and Guards Band.

experience gathered by men who "Pleading" (Morges De Cou-have studied Chinese statecraft, and vert) and Devation" (Melo-political morality during_two "een- die Passionnee), Organ Solo, turies of intercourse. There was Terance Casey

never any justification for the assump- "The Real Guy and "Domestic tion that the Kuomintang politiciana

Blisters, Comedian, Billy Ben-were possensed by any qualities

nette.

for moved by any incentives, to dis Tachaikowskiand," Paul White-tinguish thera from the other bandit-

man and His Orchestra.

rulers and political adventurers who "It's A Million To One You're have brought their country to its Far From Home" and "She's present lamentable condition. Funny That Way," Duet: Lay-Gragted that they possess certain tou and Johnetone.

advantages over their rivals, in the "Silhouettes" (Arensky), H. G. matter of superior organisation, in Amera and the Eastbourne the financial support which they Municipal Orchestra.

derive from the Cantonese commu- The Schoolmaster And The Boy,"nities overseas, in the science of pro- Comedy Sketch by Cicely paganda taught them by Moscow, Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert. and in their practical monopoly of Wistaria and The Wedding access to the Press abroad; but Of The Painted Doll," Piano these very advantages, and the Solo, Billy Mayerl.

zemi-denationalised. character of "Everybody's Melodies," The J. H. many of those who exploit them,

Squire Celeste Octet.

have, on the other hand, served to "La Tosca-Prelude Act 3" (Puc make Chiang Kai Shek's Covers- cini), Milan Symphony Orches ment more hated and leared than any of the short-lived rulers whora "On The Wings Of Song" and the people have endured since the

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Intervention Impossible, whose Napoleonic direction, the last- saying pretences of representative

Intervention by the government have now disappeared. Powers, howsoever disinterested and As President, General Chiang de benevolent, remains apparently be- nounced the persistent refusal ofyond the capacity of their collective the provincial authorities to take initiative and good will. But so orders from Nanking in matters far as Great Britain is concerned, financial and military. He deplor the results of our unfortunate re- ed their increasing tendency to in-lations with China during the past terpret Sun Yat Sen's Three Frin teo years, and the present pitiful country, fully ciples according to their individual condition of the ideas, and declared that, so long justify a change of policy. For it as this sort of thing goes on, China has become abundantly clear that, If belief in the benevolent inten- can never be united. He made it until the ruling class in China shall tions and patriotic aspirations of plain, in fact, that the only pros- have produced something approach. the Nanking Nationalists was un-pect of unity lies in general accepting to the civilised world's concep warranted two year ago, it is ance of the Kuomintang Com- tion of peace, order and stability, doubly so to-day. Any lingering mittee's undisputed authority (id firm maintenance of the unequal doubts on this point have been other words, of his own Dictator Treaties" is an indispensable con- finally dispelled by the proceedings ship), and while professing, to dedition of continued intercourse, and. of the Third Party Congress, held plore the terrible sufferings of the the only remaining barrier which at Napking, when the election of the common people, he warned all con- protects the Chinese as a nation Central Executive Committee (decerned that until the entire coun- | frem collapsing into utter and irre- (Continued at foot of next column). try is unified," any mitigation of trievable anarchy.

Third Party Congress.