BRITAIN BACKS UP MR. SNOWDEN.
PREMIER TRANSMITS NATION'S APPROVAL.
PARTY DIFFERENCES LAID ASIDE.
CRITICAL DAYS AT THE HAGUE.
(THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENCT.)
THE HAGUR, Aug. 11. A a meeting of the head of delegations, which lasted for an hour and a half, Mr. Snowden ex plained to M. Cheron that he had no intention Whatever of being offensive at the previous session.
Tense Atmosphera.
LATER.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929.
CHINA AND FOREIGN CONSTITUTION DAY
PRIVILEGES.
LENGTHY EXTRALITY · NOTE
FROM U.S.A.
SINO-BRITISH AFFAIRS.
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
to
NANKING, Aug. 12. America's reply
China's extrality Noto was delivered to the
morning. It is very lengthy. Foreign Office at Nanking this
IN GERMANY.
ENTHUSIASTIC SCENES.
BIG DEMONSTRATION IN BERLIN.
(THROUGH EZUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, Aug. 11. "Constitution Day" was today celebrated throughout the country.
President Hindenburg drove
It is understood that while the through the crowded streets in an
TRANS-PACIFIC AIR SERVICE.
EXPERIMENTÅL FLIGHT BY RUSSIA.
MOSCOW TO NEW YORK.
(THROUGH NECIWR'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, Aug. 12. The Land of the Soviets," the
amphibian aeroplane piloted by M. Shestakov-who flew to Tokyo from Moscow in 1927—and which started on August 8, arrived at Krasno-
THE RED ARMY AND ITS POWERS.
IF THE CRISIS WITH CHINA BROUGHT WAR!
·VIVID · DESCRIPTION BY A RED OFFICER.
STRATEGIC POSSIBILITIES IN MANCHURIA.
While all the signs are that the Sino-Russian deadlock will reach a peaceful solution, the following account of the Bolshevik dispositions, with an adswer to some questions that have been raised, is of interest.
CONDITIONS IN
SOVIET RUSSIA.
opened in a calmer atmosphere as Though the Financial Commission
the result of clearing up personal misunderstanding, cbances of a larger portion of the Note is de-open car to the Rejobstag, which yarsk on August 11. The plane
A Red Russian officer, who until cavalry regiment from Troitsko- settlement still seem met remote. voted to expressions of America's was filled to its utmost capacity is flying to New York vid Alaska
the Siberian route is suitable for a Siberian Red Army Intelligence officers school (400 swords) and the
and is now a refugee in Shanghai, mixed detachments of the Mongo regular air service.
If the flight is successful it is told to a representative of the lian National army. This group proposed to establish an air line North-China Daily News his views would be commanded by Comrade in 1931 between Moscow and the on the strategic probabilities in Kosich, who was in charge of the
Manchuria
reorganization of the Mongolian Pacide coast of the United States.
military force.
Mr. Snowden smilingly said: "The vigorous wording of Mr. Mac-friendship to China, America do and included the Diplomatie Corps, to ascertain the extent to which quite recently was a member of the Savak, the Bariat-Mongol cavalry.
have been accused of having hit Donald's telegram to Mr. Snowden not definitely promise to abolish ter tongue, but it is also admitted that I have a good heart"
M. Cheron accepted Mr. Snow. dem's statement and said that he
has not improved matters...
extrality, though, she professes A decision to adjourn was reach.willingness to discuss the matter Jed after speeches by Herr Curtius | with China. also never dreamt of hurting any. Loucheur (France);
(Germany), Sig. Pirelli (Italy),`and Sino-British Commercial Treaty.
The luat- body's feelings.
mentioned had pot finished his statement when Mr Snowden moved an adjournment.
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Fremier's Vigorous Telegram,
Finally, the Commission adopted Mr. Snowden's motion to adjourn until Wednesday.
Pierpont Morgan Arrives?
*Tes Hague, Aug. 11.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 12. Dr. C. T. Wang announces that the Foreign Ministry at Nanking has received America's Note. He sys be cannot comment upon it until he has seen and studied it upon his arrival in Nanking where he is due this evening.
THE HAGUE, Aug. 12. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has sent a telegram to Mr. Saowden, the text of which is as follows: "The Financial Commission will make a very serious mistake, which may wreck immediate, prospects of a
It is learned that preliminary settlement, unless they understand It is reported that the American Sino-British discussious with quite finally that the Experts' banker, 3r, Pierpont Morgan, has gard to the new Sino-British com- Report requires readjustment to arrived and has been mediating in mercial treaty have been suspend- the conference deadlock. It in beed temporarily. The delegates are qucet the just claims of Britain.
Irrespective of party or scclieved that the financial committee unable to reach an agreement," but tion, the country supports the case will be adjourned again to Wednes a point has been reached where it you have made out. Every newsday or Thursday to decide the fate is necessary for the British dele gates to refer to Londen for far. paper as far as I have seen, backs of the conference. you, and all parties in the Houre
of Commons stand by you. I hope
most sincerely that your colleagues
Morgan Humour Denied.
LATER.
The rumour that Mr. Pierpoint
on the Financial Commission will Morgan is mediating appears to be see that they have to face a poi-baseless. It is not known even that tion when the most elementary consideration of lair play as bebe is in The Hague.
A reconsideration of some of the
tween country and country, compel
recommendations of the Report.
Mr.
The Rhineland.
THE HAGUE, Aug. 12. "Our action up to now in pro
Henderson and M. Briand moting a settlement in Europe oa the basis of goodwill is a proof that to-day conferred in connection with We wish the Conference to succeed the Rhineland Control Commission. both politically and financially, but
|ther. instructions.
·
DIRECT ENQUIRY OF
MOSCOW..
CHU SHAO YANG'S MESSAGE.
(Fal Tez Fat Fao.)
SHANGHAI, Aug. 12.
In view of the refusal of M.
The Minister of the Interior emphasised the importance of the day and paid a tribute to President Hindenberg.
150,000 members of the Reichs Banner (Republican, Organisation) streets amidst con. paraded the siderable enthusiasm.
ANOTHER MISSIONARY
KIDNAPPED.
ODD CONDITION OF HIS RELEASE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Parino, Aug. 19. When bandits were driven out from Tungchang in Shantung, on
August 9, they carried off Mr. Henry C. Wesche, an American belonging to the National Holiness Mission. It is understood his re- lease is contingent upon the ban. dits admission into the Nationalist
forces.
The American authorities ai Tainan have made representation
to the Tsinan Commissioner for
Melnikor to speak upon the pre-bandits, and make every effort to Foreign Affairs, Chen Tiao Yaan" who, instructed troops to pursue the
wired to M. Karakhan asking the
we have reached the limit of in. Both mamtained their respectivosent crisis, Mr. Chu Shao Yang has affect Mr. Wesche's release.
equitable burden-bearing."
TEXAS LEVEL-CROSSING TRAGEDY.
A FARMER'S · TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
(REUTER'S AMERİCAN SILVICE]
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 12.
A train passing a level crossing
crashed into a lorry full of picnic kere returning home from a visit to the Zoo.
standpoints.
·THE EQUALITY OF THE SEXES.
real intention and view of the The bandits a retesting to
Soviet Government,
The Legation Quarter in Peping, understands that Sino-Soviet pego tiations are not broken off. Ac.
CHINESE WIFE'S CLAIM FOR cording to reports of American mili
SOLATIUM.
tary officials on the spot, there are no signs of war at the border.
"Prisoners Released.
According to a Harbin telegram,
Shanghai. Many Chinese are re- flecting now on the good old days
warda Kuanhsien, ・ westward Tangchang.
ORGANISATION OF FLYING MEN.
of
American aviation and meteoro logical circles are desisting the fight, which is expected to occupy forty days.
POET AND DUELLIST.
DEATH OF A NOTABLE ROMAN CHARACTER
A celebrated character in Rome, Fausto Salvator, who, was known as a poet and duellist, has died
Fausto at the age of 70 years. attended as second more duels than
anyone in Rome. There was hardly a noteworthy duel fought in forty years in which either one or the other of the combatants was not eager to have him as "padrino."
Why he, the most genial and in- offensive of poets, who wrote only verses on rural scenes or pleasant subjects, came to have a national
There is a popular belief abroad, he says, that the Soviets are un- able to fight owing to a scarcity of food-supplies, bad equipment of the army and the hostile attitude of the Russian people towards their Com munist oppressors.
It also said that even the mobiliz- ation of the Red Army is impossible as the people will rise aganist the Soviet and the Red Army will support them........
The fourth group and the smallest one,, one infantry division and the remaining sections of the 19th air- detachment, would march along the Hte Blagovestchensk-Harbin,
The Soviet river gunboats would dominate the Amur and Sugari.
Bands of Irregulars,
Our informant says that the at- tacking forces would be assisted by the mixed detachment of Chi- The All-Powerful Machine,
ne and Korean partisans and the Hardly so. It is true that the pro-Soviet bands of Hunghutze internal conditions in Soritt Russia They would operate in the rear of are worse than ever. The shortage the Chinese army, carrying the of food has reached a climax and slogan, "All power to the Soviets the half-starved population openly A great number of specially express their hatred of the Com-trained Communists would be with muniste. Nevertheless, the cruel the Red army in Chine to ensure and merciless methods of the Sqrict its stability. machine are such that the mobiliza- Our informant says that, accord- tion will be carried through moring to the Soviet's estimate, the mally.
whole operation 'to occupy tho To say that the Red Army's | CER. would take about a fort- reputation as an expert judge and equipment is bad would be also not right. In command of it would be swordsman is not recorded. Nor correct. However great may be the Comrade Gaybitt and his chief of is known even that he ever fought failure of Soviet industry in staff Lubimof.. a duel in his life. Yet, whenever general, the militarized workshops there was an affair between some and munition factories are working Prince or Duke, lawyer or journal with the utmost efficiency day and list, and the antagonists met insight, the poison-gas factories in some garden at five or six in the particular.
It is pointed out for instance morning, Fausto was invariably.
that the 1st Soviet Pacino division there, and it was by
mere freak of the "duelling rules" that he has no regimental artillery. This was not second or padrino for both may be so, but, our informant says, the quantity of guns and munitions in the Vladivostok Artillery stores is sufficient to equip » full-sized army-corpa
sides.
He was certainly always a friend BRITISH GUILD LAUNCHED of the other," and tenderly watched that his own protégé was not hurt, outside the rules; yet¦ his friend on the other side was spared as much as possible. Fausto
A new British aeronautical or-
If It Came to War.
What are the possible strategic mover of the Bed command in case
ented
A very important part in action would be played by the so-called chemical sections-operating with poison-gas, several highly murder- ous brands of which are fabricated on a large scale in the U.S.S.R. So much importance is attached by the Red command to the exterminating effects of poison gas that they do not increase the number of troops under arms.
Anxiety Over the Whites. Great attention is being paid by the Red command to the activities of the White Russians. It is con-
sidered that an alliance of the well-
that are gone and the difficulty the Russian authorities have zo there is in conforming to the ways leased & Chinese Coneal and over ganisation has come into being the of the new civilization. Mr. Shen 100 aged passengers who were on Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navi- Hsin Chun is a merchant, doing board vessels detained by the gators of the British Empire, which Salvatori bad also become, fay of war with China? Our info armed Whites with the Chinese: was officially launched at a meeting ourite. among writers and journs ant says that there will be fout would be a very serious problem for lists, and had for years been him- groups operating against Marthe Red army, as the Whites would self a journalist who wrote pleasant") churia. One, consisting of "literary articles.
infantry division, a brigade of He was born at Orte, but spent cavalry and several sections of the all his life in Rome, and was, in 19th air-detachment Vladivostok re-
CHANGES IN "NANKING. ·
business in hides, near the West Soviet authorities in Vladivostock. Fourteen were killed, only 100 Gate of the Chinese City. Some yards from the home of a farmer, three years ago he indulged himself Mr. Badgett, who. W38 drawing
in the luxury of a concubine and water from his well. The farmer things began to take an ominous turned and saw, the accident. His wife and seven children--all girle- are among the dead.
MAN ASPHYXIATED.
A
FOUND IN DEBRIS AFTER FIRE.
turn for the worse.
NEW CHAIRMAN FOR KWANGTUNG,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
The
in London last month. Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Avia- tion, was elected first master.
The object of the Guild is to promate the consideration and dis-
cassion of all questions affecting
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المؤسسة
DIVORCE PROBLÈMS.
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fight as faanties to regain their mother country,
On the other hand this fear is to some extent discounted as the spe- cial agents of the G.P.U. agents
addition to being the "patron "gion (Spassk) would operate in of duellists, also the president of the direction of Pogranithaaya.
A group of two infantry divisions working amongst the emigrants, provocateurs, have for years been the Roman Society of Authors,
(one from Irkutsk), a cavalry creating internal controverzies and brigade from Terkhne-Udinsk and unsettling their thoughts. The the 18th air-detachment would be agents are still there and every step moved along the line Manchuli and move of the Whites is being Harbin.
watched carefully. The recent des partations, however, strange as it may seem, failed to include a large number of the Soviet secret service agents' in the North,
MAN MARRIED TO A DEAD "WOMAN.#gh
,
The third group would be moved by a fanking march from Mongolia against the Hailar-Teitator section of the C.E.R. and consists of a
Two- unusual divorce cases have occupied the courts at Budapest. A short time ago a widower living in Buda married again, the lady being a spinster and thirty-nine. Soon after the marriage the brideg-SIR room became perturbed over, the suddenly aged appearance of the bride, and, as the marriage proved altogether unsatisfactory, he filed a petition for divorce, Court it was discovered that the When the case came before the age of the bride was in reality fifty- one, that she had rejuvenated her age, and had registered herself
SOUTHERN CROSS
FLIERS. ALAN COBHAM'S TRIBUTE
TO AUSTRALIA.
BERLIN'S EXHIBITIONS
SITE.
IMPOSING BUILDINGS AND GARDENS,
The record-breaking Australia to London flight of the monoplane
Berlin. A permanent site of im- Southern Crous was celebrated
posing dimensions for exhibitions. when Squadron at Austrália House, London, and fairs, commercial as well as
Leader Kings-
His wife has imbibed certain notions of the equality of the sexes
aviation and to protect and advance and the promptly left the house in
the interest of its members and the which she was no longer sole mia-
business of commercial aviation. · It. tress. This did not worry Mr. Shen
SHANGHAI, Aug. 19. will constitute a body of experi- but the aggrieved lady has now
Tacheung
News Agency enced airmen who will be available brought suit for the dissolution of hears from Nanking, on reliable to give evidence before royal com- her marriage and asks that $500 authority, that Yeh Tev Chang, missions, and by legislative men- One man was asphyxiated and should be settled on her as solatium Director of Publicity at Party sures consider and promote im- several others received severe burns for her wounded feelings and that Headquarters, or Ho Ying Ching, provements in the laws affecting about the face and body in a fire 8450, be given to her es compensa Laspector General of Military commercial aviation. the origin of which is unknown tion for the property she brought Training, will shortly be appointed" Membership of the Guild is ppen which destroyed a 'row of Chinese with her when she was wedded to Chairman of the Kiangan Provin to certified air, pilots and air navi cial Government, aucceeding Niu gators who are British subjectt, and shops and houses on Rue Wei Kwei her ungallant busband. in Shanghai.
Sho testified that she was but Yung Chien, who becomes Chief who have been for not less than Damage, was estimated at $3,500 29 years of age. After Shen had Secretary of the State Council. five years the bolders of a cass B and there was a considerable loss brought home his new bride she Koo Ying Fen, the present Chic! licence, a first-class airship pilot's from amoks and water. The fire ne was compelled to take her meals Secretary, will be appointed Chair. licenca, or à certificate of compet- cessitated the attention of three with the servants and was subject man of the Kwangtung Provincial ency as a first-class navigator of
Government.
commercial aircraft. detachments of the French Conces-ed to ill usage by her husband.
The Ministry of Finance is nid Members of the preliminary sion Fire Department, and the blaze The Court suggested that as her stubbornly continued for two and husband was willing to allow the to be negotiating a seccad Disband management and executive com one half hours after the units had marriage to be annulled the lady ment Loan of $50,000,000, to faci mittees were elected.Sir Alan
should be content with three years' litete the carrying out of the dis. Cobham was amongst others admit-face with cosmetics before the mar- intend to encircle the world before The site centres round the al- alimony amounting to $200, but bandment enforcement programme, ted as a member, and Mr. Lawrence Wingfield was elected secretary... A resolution was passed signify ing the willingness of the Guild to participate in the existing tri- partite agreement between the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Aerial Lengue, the Aero Club, and the Society of Aircraft Construe- (Wah Ter Fat Pas) tors. Bir Sefton Brancker urged the necessity of an agreement being SHANGHAI, Aug. 12. entered into in order that the Guild ed by General Wang Chun to the According to a Nanking telegram, should not trespass on anyone else's Kiangxi Provincial Government, the a...” campaign against banditry territories Mr. HE MUNDO, Aug. 12. mutiny of the Government troops in throughout the country is to begin Kiukiang has been quailed, and the from August 15, to be completed shopa hayo re-opened their doors. within three months.
"been summoned.
The deceased man, who appeared
to be about 40 years of age, was this was not agreed to and a sum
not discovered when the firemen en
tered the smoke filled building, but
ons was issued for the defendant
some time later when the wreckage who, at this hearing had only been had been cleared away his body represented by bis legal udviser. was found. It was burned beyond identification.
ST. LEGER SCRATCHING.
ARTIST'S PROOF NOT
TO RUN
THEOUGH BEFTER'S AGENCY.J
LONDON,
candidate Artist's Proof scratched at 9 am, today
KIUKIANG MUTINY OVER.
(Nan Chung Huo.)
According to a telegram addrem
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
BANDITS.
NATIONAL "OLEAN-UP
DRIVE.
Squadron Leader E. E. Johnson who presided, asid that overy care would be taken not to do this".
as her own deceased sister, who had been twelve years younger." The un- lucky bridegroom now finds himself in a dilemma. He is married to a dead woman, whom he is unable to divorce, since her death took place years before the ceremony; and he is equally unable to divorce the living, woman who passes, as his wife, because he has never been legally married to her divorce has been made in the second A step towards equality in case Two years ago a young WO- man in State employment married a man who abortly afterwards be came a victim to neurasthenia, and totaly, unable to work. The Court ferer husband alimony, amounting has ordered, the woman to pay her to 30 pengo & month during his
lifetime.
ford Smith and his companions industrial, is being laid out at were officially congratulated. They Witzleben, a western suburb of
Berlin
leaving for Australia again.
Captain Kingsford Smith and ready existing Radio House, and one of his companions, Flight the building plan, which extends Lieut. Ulm, have formed a com- over several years, provides for the pany to operate in Australia and construction of a number of steel, are purchasing in England four structures for exhibition halls, the Avre-Lynx monoplanes similar to total floor space of which roughly the Southern Cross for the pur- amounts to some forty thousand
square feet. pose,
↑ Sir Alan Cobham, who attended All these halls and buildings will the function, referred to his return be distributed over a wide area, flight from Australia, which, he and will, by the planting of trees it was the most perfect country in beds, be situated in most pleasant said, he left feeling convinced that and laying out of lawns and flower the world for flying and that, avia- surroundinge?
tion might alter its whole national The completion of the buildings life. It was already doing so. Air connected with the Radio House-in routes encircled the Commonwealth so far advanced that the radio ex- and were linking up the back areas, libition planned for the end of The opening of the air mail be August, and for which most of the
tween Perth and Adelaide brought leading firms of the radio Industry Melbourne in all four days nearer have arranged exhibits, will tako
place as per schedule.
to London.
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