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RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN PALESTINĘ.

MANY JEWS AND MOSLEMS KILLED,

TROUBLE OVER HEROD'S TEMPLE.

BRITISH FORCES MAINTAIN ORDER.

(REUTER AND BRITIAN, WIZZLESS.]

JERUSALEM, August 96. the trouble in Palestine is generally attributed to the carious situation of the so-called Wailing Wall, which is believed to have formed part of Herod's Temple. For centuries it has been regarded by orthodox Jews as the holiest place of prayer. -

The Arabs also attacked the Gov.

erament offices at Jaffa. The British Police fired and repelled the attack. Five Arabs were killed and 30 wounded.

H.M.S. Eagle Ready.

MALTA, August 26. It is authoritatively reported that the aircraft carrier Eagle and The object of their regular pilgrim two destroyers have been refuelled ages, the Wall, however, adjoins and provisioned ready to to proceed Haramal Sharif which is a sacred to Palestine to-morrow. Moslem area. The authorities re- cently allowed the Moslems to use

a gateway specially made in the

Wall as a thoroughfare.

"PROTECTING AMERICAN

$

LIVES.

[EZUTKE'S, AMERICAN SERVICK]

There has been mutual resent- A REQUEST TO BRITAIN. »- ment felt by Arabs and Jows meeting on this ground, the Arabs feeling that the Jews desire to ap. propriate, the ground while the Jews feel that their worship is being interfered with.

TROUBLE RAPIDLY

SPREADS.

MANY CASUALTIES. -

[TEROCON REUTER'E AGENOT.]

"

JERUSALEM, August 26. Disturbances have broken out at Telaviv, where martial law bas been proclaimed.

Some Jews have been killed in the Arab quarters at Joffi.

The Palestine Government, in a communique, states that. Jerusalem

is now quiet. British infantry, Air

WASHINGTON, August 20 The State Department has in- 'structed General Dawes, Ambassa

dor in London, to approach the British Foreign Office and express the earnest hope that Great Britain will take immediate comprehensive measures to protect American liven and property in Palestine.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929.

ITALY AND AERIAL TROPHY.

NOT DEFINITELY OUT ** AS YET.

*

NEW PROPOSALS.

(TERODOH REUTER'S AGENOY.]

LONDON, Aug. 27, Italy's intention regarding the Schneider Trophy contest is still obscure.

"RING DOWN THE CURTAIN?"

BREAK-UP OF CONFERENCE FEARED.

COMPLETE DEADLOCK.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE HAGUE, Aug. 26. The British delegation has de- voted all day to a careful study of the latest offer of the other creditor It is believed that the Italian Powers, France, Italy, Belgium and authorities are withholding a de-Japan, in reply to Mr. Snowden's Enite decision pending a mesting of demands for a fair discussion of the the Schneider Trophy Committee reparations annuities. to-morrow when Italy is credited

The offer has been examined in with the intention to submit a pro-overy detail, though it is stated to posal for a miniature Anglo-Italian be extremely complicated, and it Schneider Race, in which the actual is expected that the reply of Mr. trophy will not be involved.

Snowden will be forthcoming this evening.

Meanwhile, Reuter's correspon- dent at Rome reports that the Italian team have been instructed to keep themselves in readiness to leave for England.

The final decision as regards participation, he adds, will prob- ably be postponed until after the arrival of the team in England.

DESENZANO, Aug. 28. The body of Captain Giuseppe Motta, the Schneider Trophy pilot, who was drowned in an accident last week, has been found at depth of from 150 to 200 feet in the

Lago di Garda.

'PEITÄHO-ON-SEA.”

Mr. H. L Stimson has made it clear that the United States has no intention of despatching, a warship NEW RESORT IN THE NORTH. to Palestine. The State Depart ment has so far received no request in this connection from Americans in Jerusalem.

COLONIAL OFFICE

STATEMENT,

["D.P." Special Service,]

Peping. A humble seaside resort founded by American missionaries is becoming the most popular "watering place" of China, thanks to the patronage this summer of

Force, and armoured cars are keep-SUMMARY OF THE POSITION. some of the most prominent Chinese

ing order. British Police and special constables are patrolling al} parts of the town.

The casualties in Jerusalem since the beginning of the outbreak have been:-

Killed.

11

10

3

Jews Moslems Christians....

Jews..

Seriously Injured.

Moslems Christians

1

37 的

Five people of different commun- ities have died of their wounds.

Slightly Injured.

Јетв

Moslems....s

Christians

The Telaviv Fighting.

46

32

15

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JERUSALEM, Later.

It is now learned that the trouble

at Telaviv began when Moslems,

[BRITISH WIZZLESA BERVICE.}

militarists and civil oficials.

The resort is Peitabo, on the shores of the China Sea near Bhan haikwan, where the mountains come down to the sen, and where the Great Wall of China, ends.

LONDON, August 28. The Colonial Office issues the fol- lowing statement:-

Summarising the position in

Peitabo's rise to fashionableness Palestino on the information avail-is paralleled in Japan, where the mountain resort Karuizawa, also able as it was on Sunday morning, founded by missionaries, has become the Acting High Commissioner the fashion centre of Japan in the states that the old city of Jeru-summertime. aalem was then quiet, but there was particular pretensions to fame. It For many years Peitaho had no some desultory firing and incen- had been selected at the beginning diarism in the new quarters. The of the century by missionaries as a comfortable place to spend the situation in the Jewish outlying summer. Many of them built houses, quartera of Jerusalem was not yet and leased plots of ground for small Here they bathed in the under control and there was still eums. some looting with casualties.

ocean, walked on the beach, and had religious conferences.

The Jewish Garden City of Tal- pioth, near the railway station, has been temporarily evacuated by the inhabitants.

On Saturday there was an attack by the Arab mob on small Jewish quarters. Up to the present the

following an Arab funeral broke known casualties include 43 lives,

ter.

1:

If Peace Prevalis ----- Where the missionaries blazed the trail, the diplomats and business communities in Peping and Tientsin followed. Soon many of them began

Another Turn-Down,

LATER. Reuter's correspondent in Paris says that it is understood that Mr. Snowden to-night' informed M. Jaspar, the Belgian Premier, that the offer of the four Powers is in- suficient and unacceptable.

Mr. Snowden's 'decision at once creates a fresh deadlock as it has already been emphasised at The Hague that the offer. represented the last word of the four Powere.

Hot Enough For Britain,

1J

LATER.

ZEPPELIN OFF AGAIN.

LAST LEG OF WORLD CIRCUIT.

DR. ECKENER'S ILLNESS.

་

[REUTER'S AMERICAH SERVICE]

As soon

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26. The flight of the Graf Zeppelin across the Atlantic was marred by the illness of her commander, Dr. Eckener, as the result of the atrain of the voyage.

the dirigible was moored, he was hurried to a hotel in a state of exhaustion in order that he might get a proper rest before the resumption of the fight to Lakehurst Field, completing the fourgey round the world.

The trip across the American Continent will probably start with in the next few hours. The air ship's engineers report that the versel is in perfect condition,

O to Lakehurst,

LOS ANGELES, Aug. . hurst at 12.14 a.m.

The Zeppelin loft here for Lake- In leaving, it thrilled the specta high.tension

B

tors by scraping electric wire with its tail,

MR. WARREN PACKARD

KILLED.

A SEAPLANE "CRASH.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERTICK]

a

It is confirmed that Mr. Snowden has rejected the latest proposals of

DETROIT, Aug. ST. France, Italy, Belgium and Japan;

Mr. Warren Packard, a son of one of the founders of the Packard which involve complicated account-Motor Company, was killed and his ancy and offer British approximate. companion seriously injured, when ly an additional Mks. 28,000,000 their seaplane nose-dived into

river to-day. per annum as compared with Mks, 48,000,000 annually for thirty-seven years, which Britain is asked to surrender under the Young Plan, and which Mr. Snowden has de finitely refused to accept.

OPIUM SMUGGLERS'

MISADVENTURES.

CONSIGNMENT.

It is noted that whereas a pre- vious plan submitted was alleged A DUCKING-AND LOSS OF ia French circles to be eighty per- ceat, of Britain's claims, it is not claimed that the latest proposal represents more than 75 per cent. while Britain's examination reveals that, to their mind, the new con- cessions represent only 58 per cent,

FINDINGS, NOT. KEEPINGS,

The North China Daily News gives an amusing account of the adventures and misadventures of a France Feels Pained.

gang of smugglers, who left Han M. Loucheur has issued a state-

kow on August 14 by the Jardine, ment expressing painful surprise When the boat neared Kiukiang, a Matheson & Co. steamer Teh-hwo.

that Mr. Snowdon has refused the sumpan put off to take the smug- offer.

M. Loucheur said that France would refuse to acquiesce in the demolition of the Young Plan. The other four creditor Powers were united in their attitude and would decline to make a fresh offer.

They would leave the initiative 'from 'Low on to Mr. Snowden.

tion.

Floods of Objurgation,

PARIS, Aug. 27.

The Final Curtain ?

gled drug off before she berthed. There were 736 ounces of opium at were in charge of the cargo. A stake and three armed smugglers rope was thrown to the sumpan. but, on account of the force of the and one of the sampan's crew fell wind at the time, the rope fell short

into the water, but was fortunately fished out again.

DEATH OF SIR E. SATOW.

A FAMOUS' ORIENTAL SCHOLAR,

EX-MINISTER TO CHINA.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Aug. 26.

The death has occurred of the

THE SINO-RUSSIAN DISPUTE.

HOPES FOR PEACEFUL SOLUTION.

PERSUADING THE SOVIET.

(THROUGH BHUTIE'S JOENCY.}

LONDON, Aug. 20.

Mr. Jerome Greene, the chairman Right Hon. Sir Ernest Mason of the American Council of the In Satow, P.C., G.C.M.G., well-known stitute of Pacita Relations, inter- as former Minister to Japan and viewed by Reuter in Londen to day. later to China.

en route to Russia, foreshadowed

The late Sir Ernest Satow, who efforts to persuade the Sovies. was S3 years of age on June 30 Government to participate in the last, was educated at Mill Hill forthcoming conference of the In- School and

University College, stitute in Japan, London. He was admitted as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in 1887,

"Mr. Greene said he did not know

and entered the diplomatic service whether the conference would have as a student interpreter in 1863.

He wat Japanese Secretary to any effect on the Manchurian situa the British Legation in 1668, hetion but "while in Russia, we shall came Consul-General at Bangkok try to get in contact with the Man- in 1864 and Minister Resident in churian situation." the following year. In 1885, he was appointed Minister Resident at Montevideo, and in 1663 was made Minister at Morocco.

In 1905 Sir Ernest Satow was transferred to Japan as Minister, and he remained there until ap pointed to Peking in 1900, where he was Minister for six years.

He was a skilled linguist, and in this connection he wrote several text books on the Japanese lan- guage. He was also the author of several other works, the last of which. A Diplomat in Japan," appeared in 1921. Since bis retire. ment he had been living at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire.

"ANOTHER MISSIONARY

MURDERED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]

smingum

:Shanghai, Ang. 27. The Franciscan Procuration has received a telegram that Father Tiburce Cloodis, aged 33, and a

native of Antwerp, has been mur- dered at Ichang." There are Do further details at present.

RUSSIA'S NEW OFFER.

(Wah Te Fat Pas)..

D

NARKING, Aug. *7. The Central Government has re ceived a telegram from the Chinese Minister to Berlin, Mr. Chiang Tro Ping, saying that M. Karakhan has notified the German Government. that Russia will resume negotia tions provided Chind is willing to agree to the appointment of a Soviet director of the Chinese Eastern Railway.

THE NANKING EXPLOSION.

(Wah Tas Fat Pac.).

NANEING, Aug. 27. As a result of the explosion of the Ammunition dump in Nanking on Monday, the loer is rumoured to be $10,000,000. The casualties were heavy.

The cause of the explosion is still. not revealed, but over 700 suspects.. have been arrested.

SHANGHAI DOCTOR SEVERELY CRITICISED.

RUSSIAN WHO WAS STABBED IN A BRAWL.

DOCTORS'

STORY OF HALLUCINATIONS.

"EXAGGERATION OF KNOWN

FACTS."

Shanghai. The verdict in the in- quest on V. Shapanoff who was stab- bed in the Russian Invalids Club Suriakoff, was given by Judge Kuh after an altercation with 2.

and Mr. Stevens at the Provisional Court after two witnesses from the Victoria Nursing Home bad given evidence as to the state of the de- ceased when put under their cars after he had been removed from the General Hospital.

At the last hearing of the iD- quest Dr. Bory's qualifications were

the death certificate.

questioned, and his right to sign

Court's Verdict.

Court retired for a brief interval After further questioning the

verdict which ran as follows:- and when, they, returned read the

One of the principal objects of an inquest is to seek information, and to obtain and secure evidence in case of death by violence or other undue means, so that if death has bees caused by a criminal agency the guilt may be discovered and the innocent absolved. Keeping. these objects in view the following ver

dict is rendered:

J

After inspecting the body and hearing the testimony adduced, it Male Kurse's Evidence.

is found that the deceased, V. Mrs. Ross, a nurse of the Victoria Shapanoff, came to his death on Nursing Home, in answer to the July 13, 1929, in the Mental Ward judge, said that bromide was given of the Victoria Nursing Home by to the deceased, but had no effect hyperaemis of the brain; and, that," witted laboratory charts, of the de- the heart could bare been safely on the patient. After she had sub- the consequent fever and effect upon

Ward, Ma Stevens asked why noth had there been a proper diagnosis ceased's treatment in the Mental controlled and gradually reduced

The steamer could not make the jetty and, after he had been at anchor for two hours, the mug- "Perfidy," " Diabolical Obstiglers, growing impatient and fear- nacy and "Blackmail are among ing that an embarrassing investiga- to go to Peitaho for the summer. the epithete with which rewspapers tion might be made, cast the opium Now the Chinese officials have have denounced the British Chancel into the river. Owing to the force naved the way for a "boom in Peitaho by visiting the resort for lor for rejecting the Four Powers of the current, the sampun failed tu pick it up and it drifted away latest proposals. away from the procession towards while 30 Jews were seriously wound- Linag, overlord of Manchuria, spent third party" at the instance of

A few weeks. Marshal Chang Hsueh

Faints hopes are expressed that and was picked up by two fishermen some distance down stream. The various streets in the Jewish quar-ed.

The Moslem casualties were ten days at Peitaho this summer, Mr. Adatci, can devise any solu- bundles were wrapped in oil-cloth eight killed and 10 wounded. Four and this was the final touch needed..

and contained an embroidered bed quilt in which the opium was The Folice fired and six Araba hundred and fty Jews have been After Marshal Chang's visit, many of the chief dignitaries on both

hidden. One of the fishermen, were killed.

temporarily accommodated in the sides of the wall spent some time

LONDON, Aug. 27. named Chien, bargained with the Polics barracks, and the town is in the resort.

What seems like the ringing down other, whose name was Tsai, that now reported to be quiet.

Marshal Chang visited the simple of the final curtain at The Hague for 810 he would be recognized as little resort in style. He took with Conference is a letter to M. Jaspar the sole owner of the find. This him two long trains, one to carre from M, Briand in which the latter was agreed to and he secreted the ing had been given to the deceased by the physicians in charge of the

suggests a meeting of the six in-stuff in the house of his mistress. viting Powers, for the purpose, The next day, Tasi demanded his according to reporta from The ten dollars and, the opium not hay- Hague. of ending a situatico ing been disposed of, Chien was which now appears to be without unable to satisfy him and a quarrel any prospect of success.!!!

ensued. The six Powers accordingly meet at 3 p.m.

The Jerusalem City Council at three o'clock in the afternoon issued a statement that the "Arabs were attacking Mahneychudah and Shan- royhesed.

Alarm in Jada,

In Jaffa the situation at eight his 1,000 personal body-guards, and o'clock on Sunday morning caused the other, consisting of thirteen A later message issued by the some alarm in view of a possible cars, for himself and his staff. He bathed daily and played tennis with Council stated that Arabs were demonstration and risks of a clash his staff and with foreign friends. every moment making fresh attacks at Telaviv. The district author. If the railway line remains open, and peace prevails, prophets pre- in new localities. Five Jews were ities, however, succeeded in averting diet a real boom for Peitaho next

killed at Telaviv.

The statement accuses the Gov ernment of putting obstacles in the way of the Jews' self-defence. It anys that the Arabs are preparing attacks on every other section in the country,

An attack on Bethalpha, where many Americans live, was repulsed.

Barracks Attacked...

A communique says that order has

a demonstration for the moment, summer. Land values had dropped

OFFICIALS LEAVING.

and the Acting High Commissioner to almost nothing with the civil wers JAPANESE felt no doubt that the arrival of the years. They have already risen in this region during the past few British warship Susacx at Juffa rapidly, and with continued peace early on Monday morning would promise to reach new heights.— cause a cessation. Nablus' remain.. ed uneasy, but an outbreak had so

United Press.

far been averted. There are no re- COMMUNISM AND PEPING. ports of attacks on

the Jewish colonics in the north. Gazz and Beersheba were quiet but restive.

A Proclamation.

SPECIAL DETECTIVE FORCE

FORMED.

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to pacify his delirious condition case, and had there been exercised which was a result of drink which reasonable and ordinary care and was in his system.

dilligence in the treatment of the could not do anything without the dence by Drs. Yassinsky and Bary,

In reply Mrs. Ross said that they patient.

That the statement given in evi- doctor's orders"

to the effect that their patient was Mr. C. West, British male nurse suffering from

acute alcoholic of the Mental Word, told the Court poisoning, were successfully re ward and was reported to be suffer by better evidence. that the deceased was sent to the butted upon cross-examination and ing from delirium tremens. He said that when the deceased was ad mitted into the ward he answered different questions perfectly well which, he had asked, but at two o'clock he was very restless and was in a state of collapse.

Telephoned the Doctor.

dered that a second dose was to be He telephoned Dr. Bary who or- given to the deceased. In answer

Alleged Canse of Death, That the testimony given by Dri. Yassinsky and Eary as an ex- cuse for putting their patient intò the ward with the insane, namely that he was in such a wild state of delirium as to be a danger to. himself and of the other patients, facts was an exaggeration of known

This let the cat out of the bag and those interested in the purchase ef smuggled opium hastened to buy APPOINTMENTS. leader of the opium smugglers, had st a cheapened price. Kang, the to report to his employers that he had lost the consignment, and, as there is little honour amongst thieves, they believed that it was Nanking. While the Japanese put-up job and that he was Government has been communicat scheming to get the whole proceeds in regard to the appointment of ther squabbling and the affair be ing with the National Government for his own use. This led to fur

Mr. Sadao Saburi, Ist Councillor | came a matter of public knowledge don, as the Japanese Minister to who promptly sent men to the of the Japanese Embassy at Lon-and came to the ears of the police, China in succession to Mr. E home of Teai, the fisherman, and

"That the statement made by Dr. Yoshizawa, the Ministry of Forfound there 80 ounces of opium and

to the judge witness said that he Bary in his medical certificate of [United Freus.]

eign Affairs of the National Gay: $40 received from sales. The rest had tended, hundreds of cases of death to the effect that the primary ermanent to-day sent a telegraphic of the cargo had been disposed of delirium tremens and that two cause of death was the stab wound Peping. The Communist menace intruction to the Chinese Minister Taai was arrested, but Kang, who doses of bromide were usually ap. inflicted by Suriakoff was false; is viewed with great alarm by milito Japan, Mr. Wang Yung Pao, was the chief of the smugglers, had plied.

having been proven so by the report tary authorities in Peping, and they ordering him to convey the Govern- got wind of the raid and dit Mr. Stevens disagreed and said of the autopay, the testimony of announce the formation of a special { ment's view that the Chinese gov-appeared. This is to give notice to the public detective corps of 1,000 especially to erament would agree with the

that certain Clashes also occarred at Baizan of Palestine that His Majesty's track down and arrest Bolsheviks.

eminent, medical other doctors, and upon cross-ex

andr Hadarhacarmel. The situation Forces are operated in the country

disavewal The Commanists, which arouse pointment of Mr. Baburi as the suc- to know, opium smuggling on the thould not be given to cases of de. That the conduct of Dr. Bary Japanese government on the apvestigation. According to those authorities, stated that bromideamination by Dr. Bary's attempted at Safed was tense but improved on with the sole object of quelling the such hearty fear are not Russians cessor to Mr. K. Yoshizawa. river is a highly organized game rate of death. #dog

lirium trement, as it quickened thein issuing, before an inquest could present disturbances and promptly but Chinese. They are accused of Mr. K. Yoshizawa, Japanese The principals put up a large sum

be held and, an autopsy ordered, a restoring order. Exceptional mea- spreading communist literature and Minister to China, who has been of money and hire bravocs, like

medical certificate of death to cover Trans-Jordan Frontier force.

sures of repression will be avoided of plotting for uprisings similar to staying in Peiping in order to bid Kang and his clique, to run the nations were that he saw the de a case which he had reason to be Aircraft and armoured cars from as far as possible, but the troops those which have resulted in the farewell to Chinese and foreign drug. The bost hands are all in ceased suffering from. Witness lieve would involve a charge of will not hesitate to use force against massacres of thousands of persons in anthorities there, has left for the know and do their best to fur stated that decrased told him that homicide, was highly irregular, and Amman are operating in various all disturbers of the peace without southern provinces of China during Japan by way of Mukden and ther the interests of the smugglers, he was chasing a cat and saw dogs, culpable." parts of the country.

distinction.

the past year,

Chosen...

so the traffic is not easily prevented. I mice, etc.

(signed)". E. Stevens."

been re-established at Hebron. The districts of Gaza and Beersheba are quiet.

The Colonial Office adds that the Acting High Commissioner issued An Arab attack on the Palice the following proclamation on Sun

day:

barracks was repulsed. Two Arabe were seriously injured.

the arrival of a contingent of the

The matter is still under in-

He asked what the exact halluci