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CHINA'S DEFENSIVE BRITONS HELD BY

MOVES.

ARMIES DESPATCHED TO·

BORDER.

PEACE HOPES LINGER.

(THROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.]

PEPINO, Aug. 22. The Japanese Legation spoken- man this morning denied the truth of the report that Chinese trains

BANDITS.

TWO INSURANCE MEN.

TRAVEL DANGERS IN

MANCHURIA. '.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

HARBIN, August 22. Manchurian, bandits on August kidnapped two Englishmen, in aurance inspectors. One, Mr. E.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929.

ZEPPELIN'S TRIP DELAYED.

BIG CROWD'S ALL-NIGHT VIGIL.

A MINOR ACCIDENT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.}

HAGUE MEETINGS DRAG ON.

SEARCH FOR ELUSIVE

UNDERSTANDING."

PESSIMISM PREVAILS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE HAGUE, Aug. 21.

In strictest secrecy, the repre

BRITISH PRODUCTS

PREFERRED!

REVENUE DUTIES IN AUSTRALIA,

INCREASED MARGINS.

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CANBERRA, August 99.

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SETTLING COTTON

DISPUTE.

A MASS OF EVIDENCE.

COY DELEGATES SHUN PUBLICITY:

(BRITISH WIRELISH SERVICE.]

RUGBY, Aug. 21. When the Arbitration Court

from Kirin have been held up at M. Burton, belongs to Butterfeld o'clock this morning when the red for two hours and a half this Treasurer. The margin of British durtry began its first sitting in

Changchun by the Japanese, who and Swire's Harbin branch and were said to be refusing to allow the other, Mr. I. H. C. Godfrey, them to proceed along the C.E.R. to the Commercial Union Harbin

branch. vid the Japanese station.

Texto, Aug. 21. It is learned from the aerodrome at Kasumigaura that an accident occurred a few minutes after four Graf Zeppelin was being drawn out of the hangar, and the depar- ture of the great airship has, therefore, been delayed.

The new Revenue duties which sentatives of the Six principal are expected to produce £2,750,000, Powers at the Conference confer-Eave been announced by the Federal evening and adjourned until 10.30 Freference is either maintained or increased. The duty on foreign to-morrow morning,

silk piece goods is raised from to 30 per cent, while the duty on artificial silk goods is altered to 23

An hour earlier, Mr. Arthur Henderson, M. Briand, Dr. 'Strese- mann and M. Hymans had also

The affair occurred at Kiamusze boarded the Zeppelin at 3.47 ready had a secret conference lasting per cent, for British goods and 35

It is stated that Baron Shidehara has informed the Chinese Minister on the Sungari River, 280 miles at Tokyo that Japan is maintain. north-east of Harbin, when the men ing strict neutrality and the South were engaged in the annual inspec Manchuria Railway would, until tion of sub-agencies in connection otherwise instructed, carry Chinese with Manchuria's huge..export pro- troops and munitions, as it carried duce trade. It is believed they are other passengers and freight upon being held for ransom. payment of the prescribed rates.

3000

Both were formerly in the London office of their Big Movements of Troops.

respective firms. Foreign reparts from Harbin and Mr. Burton is 36, and late a mem- Mukden indicate that the Maa-ber of the Rhodesian Police, and churian railways will

be big game hunter. Mr. Godfrey crowded with troop trains moving is 28, à Sedbergh boy, and son of

Ex-Commissioner to the frontier.

Yesterday noon, one Kirin divi. Works in Shanghai.

Their Chinese interpreter escap sion, with the addition of 650 machine-gunners with guns, and td, and informed the authorities. 700 artillerymen, with guns, left The British Consul at Harbin has Kirin for Harbin, It is understood made representations to the Chinese

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All the passengers and crew for the Pacific flight, but when the airship was almost wholly with drawn from the hangar, the gon-

dola containing the rearmost mo- tor sharply struck the ground, breaking two struta.

The Zeppelin was returned to the bangar and it is uncertain whether she will be able to start to day.

A Sorry Stowaway.

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Toxro, Aug... It is now expected that repaire to the gondola of the Zeppelin will be completed at 8 o'clock to-night, though the time of departure is still undecided. All the passengers

have returned to Tokyo..

Immense crowds which carried out an all-night vigil at the

they will probably go to the east authorities to take immediate steps aerodrome were bitterly disappoint-

ern fronte.

Fifty thousand Fenglien troops will start moving to-morrow, travel | ling via Toonan. It is, believed their destination is the Manchuli region.

The military conference at Mak- den decided in addition to mend three brigades of cavalry and two brigades of infantry, at present near Shanhakuan, to the northera frontiers. The conference also de cided that (1) Chinese, troops along the borders at present will remsia strictly on the defensive, merely re- pelling Russian raids (2) Salaries of all officials in Manchuria shall be discounted 20 per cent, and the *proceeds used for military expenses.

to secure their release.

YELLOW RIVER DYKE BREAKS.

CROPS HOPELESSLY DAMAGED.

(THROUGH XEUTER'S' AGENCY.]

PEPING, Ang

Father Weber, of Thaochow, tele.

graphs the C.I.R.F.C. that the Yellow River dyke at Huangchwang in Shantung has a 1,000 ft. break, through which a torrent is pouring. Tsai Yun Sheng Hopeful.

A strip of country 60 miles long Toxxo, Aug. 22. Changchun advices are that Taai by 5 to 10 miles wide is flooded Yun Sheng, the Foreign Coramis- and being damaged beyond hope of sioner at Harbin, who has been to Mukden to report to Chang Hsueh saving the bean, millet, and corn Liang the result of the attempts to crops, which the July rains were negotiate with the Soviet, passed bringing on after a long period of through Chengchun this morning drought, which had brought famine en route to Kirin.

He is expected to return to Har. into that area. bin this evening

Interviewed. Mr. Tsai stated that

the results of the Mukden military conference

No were negative.

were advocated. strong measures despite reports to the contrary.

Continuing, Mr. Tani said the date of the opening of the formal Sino-Russian Conference has not yet been fixed. but the situation is considered to be full of possibili- ties.

Mr Tsai belittled the clashes on the frontier, and emphasised the fact that actual hostilities had not. broken out.

UNOFFICIAL SPEED RECORD.

SCHNEIDER CUP 'PLANE TRIAL,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Aug. 22. According to the newspapers, the greatest speed ever attained in the BETTER TREATMENT FOR air has been reached by Flying

PRISONERS,

CHINESE OFFICIALS GRANT

CONCESSIONS."".

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGÈNCY.]

PEPINO, Aug. 22. Reliable messages frem Harbin say that the Chinese authorities ara slightly improving the conditions under which several hundred ar- reeted Russians are interned. They have removed 500 men and women from one ctmp in the Harbin suburbs near Sangari, to roomier quarters across the river.

Officer Waghorn.

It was whilst making a practice flight at Southampton for the Schneider Cup Itace that Flying Officer Waghorn attained the pheno- menal speed of nearly 350 miles an hour.

His machine was a super-marine Rolls Royse monoplane, named the "Blue Rocket."

American Entry Unlucky.

'NEW YORK, August 22. The fumes of his 24-cylinder en- It is reported that the food is gine to-day affected Lt. Williams, still bad, but the authorities are the American Schneider Cup can' now permitting friends and rela tives of the internees to take them didate. He was rendered uncon-- foodstuffs and comforts,

scious for nearly five minutes when

The 30 people arrested at the trying to take off in his Mercury Soviet Consulate on May 27 are racer on a test flight. still imprisoned without a trial.

J

Luckily, the pilot switched off They have been informed that they

He made will soon be told whether they will before he was overcome. be set free or held longer for trial, two, unsuccessful attempts to start Most of them are in bad health, yesterday..

care of the and are under the prison doctor,

CHINA LOSES TEA TRADE

RUSSIA TO USE OTHER

*** MARKETS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

Moscow, Aug. 22.

noon.

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approximately an hour. They per cent. for foreign.

"The wine and spirit duty is raised talked, it is understood,regarding the evacuation of the Rhineland g/- per gallon," the tobacco ind and they are to meet again at four cigarette duty is raised ad per o'clock to-morrow afternoon, while gound, and cigars 1/- per pound. the Political Commission will meet A new duty of 10 per cent. will be at four o'clock on Friday after-imposed on precious stones. An

other new tax is 2d. per gallon on A message from Wiesbaden says the petrol content of enriched crude that gloom prevails there as a petroleum." result of a report that Belgian troops may replace the British in the event of Britain evacuating the Zone, The Municipal authori ties have telegraphed urging Dr.

suggesting that it would be pre-, Stresemann not to agree to this,

ferable to retain the British than

to have the Belgians.

Yet Another Meeting.

The Haove, August -22.“ Following Dr. bour's meeting today the heads, of the six delega tions announced that private con- versations are being resumed, in an effort to reach a settlement, and the delegates will meet again

ed at the mishap, which at the last moment frustrated their hopes of witnessing the commencement of the third leg of the giant airship's round-the-world flight. However, many are remaining, not doubting that their trusting patience will be | rewarded within the next 24 hours. Despite the greatest precautions it is learned that bluejackets dis- covered a young stowaway in semi-suffocated condition in the that Germany after September 1 buggage compartment of

thelial pay under the Dawes, not the Zeppelin last night.

Young Plan.

After medical attention, the youth was banded over to the authorities,

who are investigating his unwanted presence.

LATER.

The Daval authorities at both Tokyo and Kasumigaura have an nounced that the Graf Zeppelin is starting in the neighbourhood of o'clock this evening, according to the wind condition.

Further Delay, KASUMIGAURA, August 22. Owing to the necessity for further preparations the departure of the Zeppelin is now delayed till 10 p.m. which in some ways is fortunate, as one of the passengers missed a train, and would have failed to arrive for the take-off, if the airship had left at 9 o'clock, as scheduled.

The weather is calm and over- cast, with a threat of local showers, but is considered favourable.

It is learned that the stowaway who was discovered last night is a weak-minded youth who had stolea 300 yen from his father, with a determination to see the world from the air,

Colourful Crowds. Undeterred by this morning's dis- appointment intense crowds have again assembled to witness the de- parture of the Zeppelin. Search lights reveal a vast sea of faces lining the edge of the aerodrome, while several hundreds of privileged spectators are drawn up near the entrance to the bangar.

Part of these crowds have remain-

ed all day. They are mainly countryfolk clad in every conceivable form of dress and undress; old 'men, women and children, to whom time means nothing, but the sight of the giant dirigible departing on its ad- venturous trip across the Pacific means everything.

to-morrow afternoon.

"

The British delegation denies that Mr. Snowden yesterday suʊp- Briand's contention ported M.

"General Confusion,**

It is learnt that at the Six Power

meeting M. Briand pointed out that to accept Germany's proposed arrangement that she should pay for the next few months at least no more than is stipulated in the Young Plan, would mean that the

Conference is in extremis, which is not the case.

M. Briand added that they must make a final effort to reach an un- derstanding. Mr. Adatchi, Mr. Jaspur, Mr. Soowden and Henderson agreed, the meeting adjourned.

Mr.

Dr. Stresemann's sole remark upon emerging from the meeting was "General Confusion { "

TANGANYIKA RAIL EXTENSION.

HELPING THE WHITE SETTLER.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Rugay, Aug. 21. Information has been received by the Colonial Office from the Gover-

nor of Tanganyika Territory that the extension of the Northern or Tanga Moshi Railway to Arusha, which has been under construction since the end of 1927, reached' the railhead at Arusha on August 14th.

The extension is a short "section

A FOOL-PROOF" FLYING

MACHINE.

HANDLEY-PAGE'S NEW

INVENTION,

SOME NOVEL DEVICES.

(BRITISH WIRELEES SERVICE.)

RUGBY, Aug. 21.

which has been set up to consider the wages dispute in the cotton in

Manchester to-day, it was decided to sit in private. The Chairman, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift, said it

had been intimated to the Court by both the representatives of the employers and the operatives that it would embarrass them if the sittings were held in public.

The dispute has arisen over the emplovers' demand for a 12.89 per cent. reduction in the current wages. The operatives strenuously oppose the proposed cut.

It is expected that the hearing of the mass of evidence will occupy three days at least.

Mr. Justice Swift, at the open- ing of the Court, said: We are here to decide on evidence, which will be produced before us one clear and definite question; that is, whether, and, if so, to what extent, the employers' claim for a reduc- tion of wages is austained."

CHICAGO NEWSPAPERS

COMBINE.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

CHICAGO, August 22.

A new British aeroplane, with which it is hoped to win the Daniel Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Com-

It was announced to-day that. petition in the United States this

the old-catablished Chicago Daily autumn, will soon leave this cous-Journal has been absorbed by the try for America.

Chicago Daily News.

Those who have seen it fly say it has most remarkable properties of slow flight at amazing angles to the ground. The Aeronautical Correspondent of the Times says the machine has been designed by the Handley Page Company and full advantage has been taken of the automatic" "slot, the use of which retains lateral control of the aeroplane when its speed has be come so low that otherwise it would become still and spin toʻthe ground.

Its wings are more than usually well provided with these slots and, in addition, there are Saps along the trailing edge, which also great- ly add to its capacity for slow fight under perfect control.

A photograph of the machine represents it leaving the ground at an angle of at least forty-five de green. Such angle is impossible for a normal machine and the fact that it could fly off the ground in such position with perfect control, in- dicates that the pilot when landing should be able to so so at such a slow speed that the machine can be regarded as almost fool-proof.

The first prize in the competition is of a value of about £20,000. A31 the competing machines must be presented at Mitchell Field, Long Island, on or before October 31 next. According to latest informa- tion there are at least twelve en- trica.

BRITAIN AND PARITY. WHAT MR. CHURCHILL

THINKS..

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)

WINNIFEO, Aug. 21. Mr. Winston Churchil ad dressed a huge audience to-day, of about fifty miles in the north and referring to the proposed naval of Tanganyika Territory, and is disarmament conference at Wash designed to open up the highlandsington, said that "any parity in of Mount Meru, where there is a minor craft would mean British in- ready a considerable white settle feriority considering all the cir

ment.

works

It was one of the development which the Tanganyika Government proposed in 1926 for construction out of the proceeds of the East Africa" guaranteed loan of £10,000,000 which Parliament sanctioned in that year. The East *Africa Guaranteed Loan Com

mittee recommended the allocation. of £280,000 from the loan for this purpose..

INDUS FLOODS SUBSIDE.

[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SIMLA, Aug. 31. The situation in the flood areas,

The work of constructing the caused by the bursting of the Shyok line was, in the first place, sub- Dam, 15 again normal. Theordinated to the completion of the evacuated villages are being re-oc-

more important Tabara Mwanza AMERICA TO INTERVENE? qupied and there is no cause for Railway, to the northwest of the

further anxiety.

territory, but since the latter was finished in August, 1928, work on the Arusha extension. has been pushed on rapidly.

A NANKING REPORT.

(Wah Tax Yat Pao.)

FIRE DAMAGE TO THE “PARIS.".

NANKING, Aug, 22. -- (THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCE.) A semi-official statement issued The Foreign Office has received a

LONDON, Aug. 21. to-day, detailing the Soviet's tea telegram from Dr. C. C. Wu, the

the United It is estimated that the damage plans says that purchasing opera Chinceo Minister to tions will be transferred from China States, that the American Govern. on board the French Transatlantic to India, Ceylon, Java, Amsterdamment has decided to take action in liner" Paris" as the result of the view of the Soviet's breaking of fire which broke out on board while and Japan.

at Havre on The Soviet purchases of ten in the Kellogg Fact. He added that she lay at anchor

at least China were estimated at 15,000,000 America approves China's peaceful Tuesday, will

£100,000 to restore. attitude towards the Soviet,, 'rocbles annually,

Cost

KING TO LEAVE FOR SANDRINGHAM.

{THROUGH RAUTER'N' AGENOR.}

LONDON, August 22. An official statement issued to day, says that Their Majesties will leave for Bandringham on Satur- day.

cumstances."

WEST INDIAN SUGAR

INDUSTRY.

'SPEĊIÁL MISSION OF

ENQUIRY.

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•

ROGET, Aug. 21. It was recently stated that the Colonial Becretary had decided to send out a mission, assisted by experts, to the West Indies and British Guiana to investigate the state of the sugar industry there.

It now officially announced that the Commissioner will be Lord Oliver, He will sail at the end of September.

The task of the mission will be to consider what improvements can be introduced to meet foreign com- petition and in what way any aid that may be found possible can best be applied with this object,

Lord Oliver was formerly Gover nor of Jamaica. He was Secretary for India in the Labour Govern- ment of 1924.

AUSTRALIAN GOLD FOR

BRITAIN.

BUILDING UP THE RESERVE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

MELBOURNE, Aug. 21. Gold to the value of £1,000,000 in being shipped from the Com- monwealth Bank to the Bank of England.

The Argui commenting upon the shipment, says that it will not be surprising if further shipments are arranged in the near future.

On July 30, as the result of pro- tracted drains on the Bank of Eng- land, its gold reserve had been re- duced to £142,500,000, or £7,500,000 below the financial Plimsoll line.

"SECRET CAPITAL"

STORY.

"CONCRETE STORIES" A

MYTH.

["D.E." Special Service.]

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Moscow.-Russians are immensely. amused by the report of a story actually published in "England about a secret capital" of bon creto akyscrapers being built in Novosibirsk It is being cited here. us on example of naive English gullibility in relation to anything Russian. A Moscow journalist is even writing a satire based on it.

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First: that the.

WOMEN'S AIR DERBY MYSTERY.

MACHINES TAMPERED

WITH?

SABOTAGE" CHARGES.

* [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

Los Axoxles, Aug, 211- Allegations are being made by competitors in the "Powder-Puff " serial Derby of interference with their machines in some, mysterious

MANDET.

Mr. Claire Faby, alleges that

her machine was tampered with, and says she believes that her brace wires and centre section were deli-. berately cut.

Mr. Faby is the first of the woman pilots to make a direct charge of sabotage, but Miss Then Rasche, the well-known German · · aviatrix, told the Press yesterday: that she had been obliged to with- draw owing to engine trouble due to impurities which entered her

petrol tank in a strange manner."

Miss Marvel (not Muriel) Cros- son, the altitude record holder, who was killed yesterday, alio complained of mysterious dificul

tics.

POTTER PALMER'S

MANSION.

TEMPLE TO BE BUILT.

["D.P." Special Service.]

'Chicago.-The

famous Potter Falmer mansion on Lake Shore drive, once the fashion court of Chicago society, will be razed to make room for an ancient Lama temple whcih will be transported from Tibet.

This became known when Vincent Bendix, head of the Bendix Brake company, announced that he and King Gustav of Sweden had donat- ed 8130,000 each for an archaeologic al expedition into the strange Asiatic country to obtain two such temples. The other temple will will be reconstructed in Stockholm, Sweden.

Rare Treasurés. Some time ago Bendix bought the Palmer property and announced he would tear down the house. While. he has made no definite statement yet as to exactly where he will erect the temple, and is now in New York city, it was said in bis behalf that the site undoubtedly will be the Palmer estate.

Bendix became interested in the project recently when Dr. Sven Hedin,

Swedish explorer and authority on Asiatic culture, visit ed Chicago and told of the old tem- ples Dr. Hedin was commissioned to head the expedition. He will be assisted by two other explorers of the Orient, Lieut. Henning Haslund and Duke Larson, both of Sweden.

Rare objects of gold and silver, vessels used in the religious rites. of the Lamas, will be brought here with the temple.-United Press.

AERIAL GUNNERY.

FRENCH REGULATIONS.

Paris-Aerial target practice, which frequently sends veritable showers of machine gun bullets and. dangerous bombs to earth, has come up for regulation in the French Senate...

Farmers in the region of Fere- aviation camp Mailly have pro- Champenoise, not far from the

tested to Senator Merlin of the Marne constituency, asking him to have this uncomfortable menace re moved as far as possible.

Your correspondent has obtained A detailed description of the city from Sergei Alimon, poet and novelist, long a resident of Siberia According to a law of 1801; and recently returned from a visit French target practice can be main- to Novosibirsk. It appears: tained for the needs of National skyscrapers "Defense, but occuring in summer. referred to in the English report months, between May and Septem sometimes rench the incredible ber, this aviation has sewn altoge height of six storeys.

ther too many bullets and aerial shells to please the French farmer. Grain Elevators;

Not only is the agricultural worker Second: that the peculiar con-under constant menace of being erete structures which excited an

nipped by a stray bullet but the. English architect who heard about crops themselves are imperilled, them are in reality only grain they say, by a regional sham battle clevators of the tali cylindrical in which thousands of rounds of type familiar to America.* real bullets are shot off.

Third: that other bizarre struc

Senator Merlin Explains, tures are merely new buildings in the angular architectual style im- Benator Merlin has explained the ported chiefly from Germany, ex-situation to the French Benate, amples which can, also be found wherein during twelve days of each anmmer months, the farmers, are in Moscow.

exposed to overhead fire.

Fourth that the only secret about the whole affair is how any London correspondent ever swallow- ed such a tall tale whole..

Novosibirsk in the capital of Siberia. It has a population of over 120,000. There is so little se eret about its growth that hundrede of articles have been printed about the fact. As a natural shipping centre for the Siberian wheat re gions it was economically important even before the Revolution, when it was known as Novo-Nikolayevsk

Recently a number of up-to-date flour mills and grain elevators were erected and its proud citizens like to refer to Novosibirsk, az" our Minneapolis."United Press

Although it was explained by the War Ministry that these experi ments had been greatly reduced, it was argued that if they are ne- cessary, they could not be reduced, and if they are capable of being reduced they can be dispensed with altogether.

Minister of Agriculture Hennes- sey.. won an acclamation vote when

he proposed to carry the fight to Laurent Eynce, of the new Air. Department, to have the aerial bombardment of France's cultivated fields removed to some more barren region where machine gun bullets may be planted in safety and with no loss to crops or human liven, »..