SOVIET ATTACK ON SUIYUAN.
BOMBARDED AND BURNT.
A GRAVE REPORT.
[TUROCOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MUXDES, October 1.
An official communiqué issued by General Chang Tao Hsiang reports that Saiyuan City, on the Amur River was bombarded and burnt by the Russian fect on September 20.
Moscow, Sept. 20. Regarding the Chinese allega tions of ill-treatment of Chinese prisoners in Siberia, the Tass Agency, the official news agency of the Soviet Government, 'says that the German Consul at Vladivostock has visited the Chinese, who were Arrested at. Chita.
The German Consul, the report досв on, afterwards told repre Rentatives of the Chits newspapers that the prisoners are being treated satisfactorily, and similarly to the Russian prisoners.
REDS IN FUKIEN..
STILL SPREADING "DEVASTATION.
(Fak Tiz Tat Pao).
SHANGHAI, Oct. 1. The Reds under Chu Tak and Mo Chak Tung have captured Wu- ping and Shangbang districts in southern Fukien.
Through their
nutinied.
The
instigation, two battalions of the Fukien
troops magistrate of Shanghong, a regi- montal commander, and
many people were killed.
"IRONSIDES" ROUTED.
REPORTED HEAVY DEFEAT.
(Nan Chung Kuo.)
MR. WESTERHEIM IN SHANGHAI.
DRAMATIC RESCUE BY SOLDIERS.
'BATTERED WITH STONES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}
SHANGHAI, October 1. Mr. Westerheim, of the ill-fated
Botaia, arrived in Shanghai this morning, and was immediately sent to hospital.
It is learned that when the Chi nese soldiers pressed on his captors, the latter conveyed him to a cave from which he attempted to escape. In a fight with the guards he received severe blows on the head, from a large stone. The soldiers finally traced the pirates to their lair, and rescued Mr. Westerheim after a sharp fight, in which several casualties occurred on both sides.
The military captured two of the gang, and brought them to Mr. Westerheim for identification, and then summarily shot them on the
beach.
Mr. Westerbein's wounds are not In this expected to prove fatal. connection, it is noteworthy that Capt Finnland was also battered on the head with a stone, and left for dead, before the pirates abandoned him during their flight.
However, it is pleasing to know that both are now recovering.
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STORM HAVOC IN JAPAN.
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE.
(THROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.]
Toxvo, Oct. 1. Widespread havoc has been wrought in the Amgmioshima Is lands and the Luchus by a storm which swept the area all day long on September 9, Sunday.
Official figures received in Tokyo show that nearly six hundred houses have been destroyed and ever According to a Bankow telegram, General Liu Chik has received a eight hundred damaged. Five mo- telegram from Brigadier General Litor-boats were sunk and there were of the Hunanese troops that the
several casualties. "Ironsides have been routed by the Hunanese troops. Over 2,000 rifles and large quantities of am munition and military supplies were captured.
After the Ironsides. A Reuter message from Hankow states that according to local offi cial reports the Hunanese roops! under Generals Wu Shan, and Li Pao Ping are following on the "Ironsides heels and harassing them considerably.
NEW UNIVERSITY IN PEPING.
OPENING CEREMONY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
PEPING, October 1. The five days opening exercises of the Yenching University con- cluded this afternoon, when Mr. Franklin Warner, Chairman of the New York Board of Trustees, hand- ed over the keys of the new build- ings to Chancellor Wa Lei Chaun, -in the presence of a large audience.. The buildings cost more than 20,000,000.
Among the telegrams of good wishes received this week-end were those from ex General Dawes, the London University,
U.8. the Academy of Arts, and also letters from the American Foreign Mis- sion Conference.
FREEMAN OF SUFFOLK. HONOUR FOR GENERAL DAWES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, October 1 General Dawes has received the freedom of Sudbury, in Suffolk, whence his Puritan, and stone- mason,' ancestor went to America in .1€35.
Mr. Ramsay Macdonald would simultaneously have received the freedom of the town, but his do parture to America prevented the ceremony.
THE PRINCESS ROYAL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGHIOT.] :
LONDON, October 1.
A bulletin issued to-day says that
the condition of the Princera Royal
is unchanged, after a disturbed night.
Press despatches from the area put the damages figures even high-
er.
!..
A SPLENDID RESCUE.
EXCITEMENT IN NEW ORLEANS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 30. After standing by throughout & night of terrible weather in the wake of the hurricane, the const- guard ship Saukee succeeded in rescuing all the twenty-eight mem- hers of the crew of the Danish cargo-steamer Senndia, which was wrecked on the treacherous Mol- lasses Reef by the hurricane,
There is little prospect, it is feared, of saving the cargo of the Scandia" which consisted of three and a half million gallons of fuel oil. The Scandia is a petro- lean steamer of over 8,000 tons
DOMINIONS AND NAVAL CONFERENCE.
·OBSTACLES SURMOUNTED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY."]
LONDON, Sept. 30, A wireless message from Reuter's representative on board the Cunard liner Berengaria, which is carrying Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to the United States, says that the final communications have been received from the Dominions Governmenta regarding the questions on which depended the invitations for the Five-Power Naval Conference.
The way is now clear for the is sue of invitations to a Conference
'THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1929.
REPRISALS IN
CHEFOO...
UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN.
THE BANK RATE QUESTION.
TERRIBLE STORIES FROM.
MR. THOMAS CLAIMS A CURE.
VIEWS OF SIR OSWALD MOSLEY.
THE NORTH,
WOMEN CUT TO PIECES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]
CHEPOO, Oct. 1. Military operations were recently undertaken by troops under. Liu Chien Nien against bands of "Red
Spears" in "the district between Iwanghaien and Tengchowfu, south of the Chefoo-Weihsien motor road
P
"AN ATTACK" EXPECTED. HOW TO CONTROL CREDIT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Lospon, Oct. 1. Addressing the Labour Party Conférence to-day, Mr. Thomas atressed the difficulties of J. H. tackling the unemployment prob-
lem.
Despite the fattery heaped on the Labour Government, the real
·(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, October 1. That the increased Bank Rate
difficulties was emphasised to-day will intensify the Government's
by Sir Oswald Mosley in a speech
at Hove.
►
England, with its present power, He declared that the Bank of
SHEARER DENIES SUGGESTIONS.
* VIGOROUS THUNDER" AT
TRIAL.
U.S. NAVAL SCANDAL.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
TERRORISM IN MANCHURIA.
RUSSIAN YOUTHS AND WOMEN ARRESTED.
SEQUEL TO. BATTLE IN FOREST,
[United Press:]
A group of Russing young men
than 3 years of age, has been and women, none of them mora
WASHINGTON, "Oct. 1. "You have raked the sewers of
ruin me," thundered William She London and New York in order to
arer
arrested in the forests of North vigorously, when denying
Manchuria by Chinese police and questions put at the Senate en- quiry alleging that he was the as-soldiers, charged with directing sociate of international crooks, but terrorist acts which seriously inter-
had been arrested in America as a Chinese Eastern Railway since the spy. He admitted that he was ar Soviet Union broke off diplomatic rested on the dock where a yacht relations with China, was unloading "whisky...
Many conflicting reports are cur-attack, he said, was coming on the could deprive two men of work for he said, he "supposed" that "he fered with the operation of the
unemployment issue, whoz Parlia meat re-assembled.
rent as regards the burning of vil- lages and killing of inhabitants. It is known, however, that the
Mr. Thomas emphasised that pro- Senior Consul on September 8,
greas was being made with the interviewed Liu Chien Nien, « re-
municipal road and Colonial questing him to
intervene on schemes, which were producing re- humanitarian grounds. A repre-sults. It W34
not merely paper sentative of the Chinese Chambor task, but was actually providing of Commerce has also interviewed employment. Liu Chien Nien.
Salesmanship!
he took a shipload of British coal Mr. Thomas later divulged that with him on his recent visit to Canada which the Canadian rail. ways tested. "He encountered op- position from the Nova Scotian colliers, but brought back samples of Nova Scotian coal, in order to demonstrate that a blend of British and Nova Scotian coal would bene. at Canada.
A report from American mission ary sources states that eighteen villages which were linked up with Sigia (one of the centres of the Red Spears movement), were all burned, some worse than others.
At Sigia it is reported that even women with babies in arms, who
He also interviewed steel import- fled to the cornfields, were cut to
a promise of pieces by soldiers. The operations ers, and secured
orders, which he had not so far apparently are not yet over. To date it is stated that altogether announced, with a view to prevent- eighty villages have been more oring the Americans jumping into the
market, and offering to undersell. less burned, or the houses looted.
TO REPUDIATE WAR TREATIES.
PLEBISCITE TO BE HELD IN GERMANY.
(THROUGH REUTER'6" AGENCY.]
BERLIN, Sept. 30.
A plebiscite is being held in Ger- many between October 18 and 19 on the Bill Against the Enslave ment of the German People," which repudiates all post-war treaties and agreements.
The plebiscite is due to the Na- tionalist campaign in favour of the Bill, which stipulates that any Ger- man Minister or plenipotentiary signing D agreement imposing burdens on Germany will be liable to trial for high treason.
BRITISH REVENUE RETURNS.
DECREASE IN THE DEFICIT.
(THROUGH KETTER'S AGENCY.]
Loxoox, Sept. 30, The revenue returna for the first six months of the financial year show a deficit of £72,000,000, the receipts being £317,000,000 and expenditure £380,000,000.
The deficit, however, is nearly £4,000,000 less than for the same period last year, and experts are of the opinion that the situation is not unsatisfactory..
THE
PALESTINE AFFAIR.
AN ARAB PROTEST.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
JERUSALEM, Sept. 30. After meetings at Haifa, Jaffn and Jerusalem in protest against
the sentences on Arabs in connec tion with the recent disturbances, the Araba decided to close all their establishments in Palestine, and to cense all work on Wednesday.
He hoped that Lancashire would benefit from his Canadian "trip, inasmuch as the British cotton in dustry had been hampered by Cani- dian Imperial Preference, given conditionally upon 50 per cent, of the labour used in an article being British. This condition was impos sible, as, raw cotton was mostly purchased outside the Empire,
Mr. Thomas hoped he would be able to say definitely that raw material would henceforth be ex- cluded from those conditione. He confessed that he was disturbed by the increase of the Bank Rate, which, moreover, was not likely to achieve its object,
WHAT
LABOUR" STANDS
FOR.
every one the Government provided with employment. Also, he stated, that the Labour Party policy on the question was now supported by some of the leading, organs in the city.
He himself believed that it was
possibly to control credit without endangering the financial stability of the country.
FOREIGNERS ON INLAND
WATERS.
STEPS TAKEN FOR ABOLI
TION OF PRIVILEGE.
Nanking-Replying to a tela- gram of the Shanghai Navigation Association urging that steps be taken for the abolition of the pri- vilege of inland navigation by for. eigners, the Ministry of Communi- cations, in a telegram to the assy- ciation yesterday, states that it is co-operating with the Ministry of Foreign Afairs in endeavouring to bring about the removal of this handicap of the development of Chinese shipping.
The telegram declares that such privilege will not be granted in the new Treaties to be concluded between China and foreign Powers.
FOREIGNERS TO LOSE PRIVILEGES.
CANNOT ACT AS CHARTERED
ACCOUNTANTS.
LONDON, Sept. 28. The untiring attempt of British Communists to communise' the Labour Party and to. twist its pro- gramme into a more radical path will be dealt a decisive death blow to-morrow when the twenty-ninth annual conference of the Labour Party opens at Brighton,
The Labour Party will fight the spectre of radical and Communist influence by a drastic measure ex- cluding members of the Communist Party and other radical organisa-auditing of accounts or a sure tions from conferencca of the Labour Party.
Nanking. Foreigners residing in the interior of the country will shortly lose the privilege of act ing as chartered accountants in the
i
Shearer said that shipbuilders offered to pay him £6,000 yearly to go to Geneva and then drum the necessity of a Navy Merchant Marine into the American public. He denied trying sabotage at the Geneva Conference.
i
Rear Admiral Reeves alsou gave evidence and said that he desired
the success of the Conference.
SMEDLEY-BUTLER CRITICISED.
TRENCHANT PRESS COMMENTS.
ENTHUSIASTIC AND FLIGHTY
MARINES."
[United Press.)
Peping.-Major-General Smedley Butler is the object of scornful and ironical comment in the English language
The group was traced to the forest after An attempt upon the life of P. Shiskin, a Russian in the employ of the Chinese police at Harbin, in which the group charged with committing.
The Surrender.
in the forest, two of the group In the fight with Chinese police escaped after firing several shots, but the rest finally surrendered. The Chinese police claim that they have obtained information from the captives which reveals the plans for
wide-spread reign of terror in North Manchuria, directed parti cularly against the Chinese Eastern Railway,
The leader of the band, accord- ing to the Chinese police, was a man named Jdanoff, one of the many student-interpreters sent to Chinese language. Harbin by Moscow to learn the.
He is believed also to have been the chief organ izer of terrorist gange in support of the Soviet cause.
When discovered, the band was living is tenta, where parabellum, ammunition, pistols, ignition cords, electric wire, and other parapher ualia for sabotage against the rail- way were found, the Chincee police declare. The suspects were brought to Harbin, and are imprisoned here..
newspapers of North China, following the publication here of General Butler's own story
Red and White Feuds, of his experiences as commander of
The attempt upon the life of the U.S. Marines in China during
pt upon t
the many the crisis of 1927-8,
tales of euds between Red and The mast severe attack upon White Russians with which this city General Butler's story is made by abounds. Shiskin arrived in Har Charles James
Fox, American editor of the American newspaper where he had held important posi bin in 1924 from Vladivostock, in Tientsin, the North China Star, tions in Soviet institutione, and was Tientsin was General Butler's head at once appointed a member of the quarters during most of his stay in Trade Union Council here. In 1820, he became a member of the com- mission examining application for Soviet citizenship in the Soviet Consulate General, with "access to consular Bles.
China.
ed
These proposals are contained in a new Labour Constitution, which without a doubt will be adopted They hit right at the fountain-head of the radical element troubling the Labour Party and which thren- tens its future success at the polls. Through provision that no speci- fie proposals of legislative, financial and Special Municipal Govtsin. included in the party programme cial, adminstrative reform can be
without the two-thirds consent of the conference of the Labour Party, the Radical and Communist ele ment is definitely weeded out of
the Labour roster.
"Alone in Tientsin.".
from the
Spanish-American
But toward the end, of 1920, a Russian girl friend of Shirkin quar. relled with him, and told Soviet authorities that he was really anti- Bolshevist and was acting secretly as informant to the Chinese police. lie was dismissed, and a wholesale shifting of trade uniou executives followed.
In an editorial entitled "Alone in Tientsin," Dr. Fox says: Like many of our local subscribers who are familiar with the facts we have been reading with a good deal of amusement Major-General Smed ley's own account of his recent ex ploits here in Tientsin. As a cat may remind one of a tiger, so General Butler's yarns of his ex- ties, according to a set of regula-pedition to North China reafind us tions now being formulated by the somewhat, of Colonel Roosevelt's
Shiskin, outlawed by the Soviets, Ministry of Industry, Commerce own story of the Rough Riders in
an agent for the the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. and Labour, in conjunction with Cuba, written just after he return openly became
Chinese police, and is said to have given them much valuable informa. to the Ministry of Judicial Ad-
The regulations will be submitted | War.
"And, as Dooley dubbed the ion about Soviet activities. It was ministration for examination be-Roosevelt story · Alone in Cuba, so
state here that he had valuable fore being promulgated as a minie we feel that Butler's yarns might documents from the Soviet Con- terial order to the various prayin- well be entitled Alone in Tiensulate which he held secret,
It is surmised that the "Young "Really, there were others in Communiste," whose leaders wero Cuba besides the then Lieutenant- captured in the forest, decided that Colonel Roosevelt and his. Rough he was too dangerous to the Soviet Riders, and during the recent crisis cause, and resolved to get him out in Tientsin, there were also others life was made in daylight on Har of the way. The attempt on his besides the then Brigadier-General bin's principal street by a young. Butler and his Marines. We had
man riding in an automobile who then, as we have now, the Fifteenth fired a pistol at him, wounding him U.S. Infantry, who, like the in the back. battalion of, Marines in the Legation Guard, because of their long service in and around Tientsin or Peking, terial are offered for anle by pub-local conditions, were in a far better. and their resulting knowledge of lie auction which is to take place position to render real effective on October 11.
ernments
FRENCH SALE OF WAR MATERIAL.
ED BY PRESS.
Although the new Constitution which comes up for consideration WAR DEPARTMENT FILLORI- to-morrow and the three succeeding days was ordered two years ago, the special measures directed at the Communists are undoubtedly the
result of bitter accusations of the party's radical tendencies made at the last general election by the Conservatives and Liberals.
The proposals directed at the radical element of the party is but one of many others aimed to soli- dify the party and insure party discipline. The new constituion FRENCH TROOPS ON THE also definitely states that the name of the party is the Labour Party, RHINE.
despite the fact that many of the Liberals and Conservatives insist terming it the "Bocialist Party,"
TO REMAIN AWHILE.
(THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Sept: 30.
Replacing M. Poincare who, for the first time for many years, was unable to preside at the opening
on
The Constitution lays down more complete regulations as to member- ship in the party, ensuring a more harmonious conception party's policies.
of
the
to be held in London in the middla i session of the Council General of vision is made for National As
of January.
DUTCH INDIES MAIL: SERVICE.
"A MACHINE HELD UP.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 30.
The second machine of the new air mail service to the Dutch In- dies was forced to land owing to bad weather near Batal, on the west coast of Siam, en route from Bangkok to Medan. The machine
Meuse Department, M. Maginot, Minister for the Colonies in a speech at Bar le Duc, declared that premature evacuation of the Third Zone of the Rhineland, under. The Hague Agreement, was strictly con- ditional upon the French and Ger man Parliaments ratification of the Young Plan.
...
troops Therefore, the French would remain until the Young Plan operated.
COSTES SIGHTED.!
ETHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY."
Moscow, Sept. 20.
was damaged, but the occupants The airman Costes was sighted were unhurt. The mails were for- to-day flying over Novosibirak en warded to their destination.
route for Irkutsk
It is interesting to note that pro- sociate Members to be enrolled at the discretion of the Executive Committee. It is believed this class of membership was provided to care for cases like the recent de- sertion of Sir William Jewitt from the ranks of the Liberal Party to join the Labour Cabinet.
The objects of the Party, accord- ing to the new Consitution, in- clude to secure for the producers by hand or brain the full fruits of their industry, and the most equi- table distribution thereof that may be possible. upon the basis of com mon, ownership of the means of production and distribution, and the Best obtainable system of popular administration, and con- trol of each industry or service. (Continued at foot of next column).
Pants, Sept. 26. Large stocks of obsolete war ma-
The war material includes Win-service in an emergency than were chester rifles, carbines and rides of the enthusiastic and somewhat other makes dating from the years flighty marines. 1800 to 1874 together with bayonets and nearly 20,000,000 rounds of am munition. French citizens and re- sident foreigners are admitted as bidders on the condition that their purchasca must be exported abroad within one year.
оп
BANDITS STILL ACTIVE.
RUSSIAN DESPERADOES.
[United "Preas.]
White Russian bandits have exist
ed for years, but the recent Sino- Russian controversy, together with increasing poverty among Raseinas in stimulated their growth to an un- Harbin and elsewhere, has Precedented extent.
Harbin. A dozen groups of deter- mined bandits, honded by White Mid-statements Alleged. Incidentally, the Fifteenth In-chiefly of Russians, have appeared Russian desperadoes and consisting fantry has been in North China for along the western line of the kinds of serious emergencies, and robbing farms and villages in exten. about a generation, through all Chinese Eastern Railway, and are to the best of our knowledge has sive districts, according to reports also never fired a shot. But the of travellers returning here. The Press generally condemns the Fifteenth doesn't boot off its disposal of this war material by face about the unfired shot." public sale. The
paper Matin The North China Standard in demands that the arms with which Peping is more serious in its com- several divisions of soldiers can be ment upon General Butler's articles equipped, be destroyed, saying which appeared in local newspaper
while diplomata are endeavour-
as well as in the United States. ing to liquidate the outstandingThis paper plainly accuses General war problems, the French military Butler of making obvious and Daring and Thorough,
ridiculous mis-statements,”
"The Russian robbers are describ It must indeed be disconcerted as more daring and thorough ing to the U.S. Marines, stationed than their Chinese counterparts. in Peping and to the members of They take off not only money but the American Legation here, to farm produce and everything elac have General Butler permit himself they can lay their hands on wordy indiscretions in print," says Among the farms. robbed " aré the Standard,
several experimental farms, where After detailing a number of state-modern methods of agriculture were.. ments made by General Butler being introduced into North Man- which the Standard declares are churia.. definitely untrue, the paper con- The robbers have held up and tinues: The only conclusion open robbed a number of esravans of to us is to believe General Butler carta in which produce is brought to was misquoted (by a ghost-writer). market. They take not only the Perhaps the resultant embarrass produce but, the horses and carts ment will convince him of the themselves. Most of the bandita dangers which beset the path of a are mounted, and Are Always responsible officer who engages in anxious to add to the horses in public writing about his profession." their possession..
throws administration
the arket large quantities of unused war material with which the reac tionaries of many countries will be glad to arm themselves".
"Generally to promote the poli- tical, social and economic emanci- pation of the people, and more particularly of those who depond upon their own exertions by hand or brain for the means 4 life."
Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Transport, will be Chairman of the Conference It is interesting to note that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. was renominated for treasurer of the party by thirty organisations. He will be unopposed.
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