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DEATH OF DR. GUSTAV STRESEMANN.

THE BISMARCK OF POST-WAR GERMANY.

TRAGIC COLLAPSE FROM OVER-WORK..

A GREAT LEADER LOST.

(THROCHU KEUTER'S AGENCY.}

BERLIN, Oct. 3. Dr. Gustav Stresemana died at 5.23 this morning in his home, as a result of heart failure following a parulytic stroke.

Germany in Mourning.

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the his Doctor's disertation on "Economic Problems of Berlin's Beer-Bottling Industry.' Strese- mann, without showing the sligh test sign of annoyance, calmly as cepted the professor's challenge, and

proceeded to turn out the most brilliant thesis of his year.

When he was secretary of the board of directors of the Saxon Industrialists, he was mare con - labourers than is usual in the posi tion which he held.. but less so that with the condition of the capi talists whom he served.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1929.

SCENE AT SOVIET EMBASSY.

COUNSELLOR CLIMBS OVER THE WALL..

RUDE HINT FROM MOSCOW.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENST.]

PARTS, October. 3. The Soviet Embassy was a scene of excitement this morning, when the arst counsellor, M. Bessedowski, clambered up the rear wall, then the Prefecture of police dashed to and implored the officials to secure

BRITAIN'S POLICY ON, FINANCE.

REASONS FOR RAISING BANK RATE.

EXPLANATION BY MR.

SNOWDEN

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Oct. 3.

FLEXIBLE TARIFF IN U.S.A.

A NEW PLAN TO BE ADOPTED.

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BILL BEFORE SENATE.

[BUTE'S AMERICAN SERVICE.}

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. After a long debate, the Senate

TROUBLE ON THE FRONTIER.

BAYONET FIGHTING AT MANCHULI.

A GRIM STRUGGLE..

[гHUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)

An

» MURDER, Oct. 3. official comunnique states

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LABOUR TROUBLE IN AMERICA.

PICKETS AND WORKERS CLASH.

BITTER FEELING.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)

MARION, Oct. 2. The bitter feeling between the Communist Labour organisers and

Mr. Snowden, addressing the has adopted the flexible tariff plan, that a violent Russian attack was the anti-Communists in the North

at Brighton, Labour Conference defended the Bank of England's increase of the Bank Rate, as the only means available to restore the unfavourable exchanges, and

The country throughout Ger-cerned with the condition of the the release of his wife and son, ¡gulate the basis of credit.

mahy is staggered as a result of the death of the indefatigable Foreign Minister, whope will power triumphed over physical infirmities, For six years he was continually in the hands of doctors, whose repeated counsel to retire to rest he ignored, in the conviction that his indispensability would restore his country's shattered fortunes.

Stresemann, who at 28 fought in the Lower Chamber of the Saxon Parliament for the representation therein of big business, and who had been devoting his life to the expansion of German industry, frund himself naturally drawn, in the Kaiser's Germany, to the poli- tien advocates of expansion, At 30 he was one of the National Liberal members of the Reichsing, and he had to be at lenat as strong- Dr. Stresemann was busy all day y National as he was Liberal. In 1912 he made a study of American long yesterday, dealing with work-

industry, and in a speech in men's insurance, upon which Toronto, widely circulated by the Government crisis appeared most Association of Canadian Manufac turers, he warned against a Ger- likely. He had a stroke at 10.15 man-American war. At the same time he made the acquaintance of pm, which probably induced ex-

Woodrow Wilson, who impressed cessive fatigue, with which his him profoundly. By 2014 he want

ed to start with Albert Ballin, of right side was paralysed."

the Hamburg-American Steamship Doctors wrestled with impending Company, a German company for world trade--all of which showed death all night long.

that he was in truth an imperialist,

Indubitably, the great statesman He co- was the victim of duty. temptuously disregarded numerous

fanatical Nationalist threats of per- sonal violence, and pursued his prodigious labour at home and abroad, which

was crowned with securing the evacuation of all the foreign troops.

World-wide Tribates.",

Losbos, Later. World-wide tributes to Dr. Strese- mann, include the French Press, which deplores his death as a grave lese, not merely for Germany and Europe, but for France..

A Berlin report states that in the Reichstag Dr. Stresemann's seat was draped with a black wreath. All the Cabinet members and Leputies present, except the Com munists and extreme Nationalists, rose when vice-President Esser and Chancellor Mueller paid tribute to the deceased statesman. Vice-Presi dent Esser said that his work as Foreign Minister should be writ-

ten in letters of gold in the history

of his country.

LATER."

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but that he did not desire war as a means to economic power.

The Way and After,

With the outbreak of the war,

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who, he said, were imprisoned in the lishing a committee to enquire into Embassy.

He announced that he was estab

relations of industry and finance M. Bessedowski "declared that the wide with terms of reference. The committee would be able to investi- Moscow Cheka had despatched an.

gate all the aspects of banking, official to interrogate him on his re-finance and credit policies, cent change of political views. He said that he declined the envoy's demand to return to Russia in an- swer to a charge of heresy, and re- quested to be allowed to depart with his family.

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The Soviet envoy then produced a revolver and prevented bis de- M. Bessedowski escaped parture. through the back premises, and brought back the Director of the Judicial Police, who secured the liberation of his wife and son..

The new plan fixes tariffs at cer- tain rates but allows of alteration at any time at the instance of the

Tariff Commission, «'

The most important feature of the Bill approved by the Senate,

however, is that it restores to Con- gress the power now vested in the President to change the duties after the necessary investigation by the Tariff Commission."

made a the Chinese position at Part of the Chinese trenches Maucháli on October 9,

were taken and re-taken with the bayonet. The casualties were 300 Russians and 50 Chinese.

The Ironsides.

Carolina textile area, where a long dispute has dragged, on and off, for weeks, which has already re sulted in several minor incidents,

CELITE LO a head to-day when a serious riot occurred outside the Marion Manufacturing Company's HANKOW, Oct. 3.

cotton mill. Despite continuous claims, by" the

It would

appear that striko Shek school, of piskets were attacked by anti- Chiang Kai- victories against General Chang Communist workers and that a Fat Fui, it seems that the Iron Two of the strikers were killed and feree fight took place in the street.

It is regarded as certain that sides still hold Changteh and Shen-nineteen were injured, five of them

chow, and the country between.

seriously that they are not ex:

The Militia was called out to

prevent further disorders.

The riot followed a new strike' or the grounds that the mill-owners were not keeping their agreements. The strike pickets conflicted with the workers, and shots were fired.

Mr, Snowden emphasised that

It also seems that General Ho Fected to live. the Treasury was not responsible the action of the Senate in passing for the rise in the Bank Rate, the Bill in that form will preci-Chien is too busy "sappressing which rented, with the Bank of pitate a vital trial of strength be- bandits" to attend to the suppres

tween the President and the Legis- sion of the Ironsides. England. he said that everyone admitted that Hoover is anxious to retain the po Referring to the go.d standard,lature, as it is stated that President

now the gold standard was univer. ally established, it must be main. tained. "until man's wisdom deind a group of. Independent Re-ditions in Honan and Shensi are

vised some better substitute for

it."

Reviewing world inancial condi- tions he alluded to the "perfect

possible only when derman cur-crgy of speculation in New York" rency-which had entirely lost its in the past year, where call money value during the passivo resistance

was a high as 12 per cent, and in the Ruhr-had again been stabi-

attracted money from Britain, lished. All of this could be achiev ed only by recognising the treaty while Germany, practically rebuilt and repeating: "We shall pay." in the "past decade, absorbed for- Because of those words Rathenau had been murdered; Rathenau's eign money at a high interest. opponent, Stresemann, spoke them later and with much greater suc-

CESA.

however, Stresemann's ideala chang ed. One cannot quarrel with him greatly because he assumed that the war had been plotted by Eng- land out of commercial jealously,

At this later time, too, the po- far that was a universal Germany was neither easy nor without "Whoever opposes the formals at that time, and in his danger.

Dawes Plan mobilises one of the greatest World Powers against Himself," said Stresemann, and when, in the Reichstag, a Nation- alist cried out at him that he was making a splendid defence for the enemy, Stresemann, the composed and elegant debuter, lost patience and judgment and shouted "In- famous' at his interrupter. For the first time in seventeen years in the Reichstag he found himself called to order-an event of which

circles it became a sort of auto- suggestion. It is also in his favour that he did not on November 9, 1018, like an inany of his associates, at once swear fealty" to the new Bag, but, on the contrary, warned against the dethronement of the Kaiser. Then he wavered, per- force, for a few months between the new and the old; he voted in the Weimar Parliament against the signing of the peace of Versailles, and spoke of the" disgraceful days

European Politica.

of the Revolution. At the same he could be proud. But for a time he placed himself squarely long time after that he was guard upon the platform of facts "ied by police whenever he went out. is a wonder that this platform did not collapse with all the people who hastened to take their stand upon it! He even cautiously attempted to mediate at the time of the Monarchist coup of Kapp and Ludendorff in March 1990, and he denounced the general strike, al though that was the only way to defeat those ill-prepared conspira

turs.

When Stresemana had answered France's first threatening demand for reparations, his response to her next demand, for security, was al- most fore-ordained. It had been recognised earlier that only a l vent Germany could pay, and that the economic interests of all the states concerned were interwoven. Now people began to understand that the States bordering on the Rhine were even politically much too closely associated to be able to live there peacefully without a difinite agreement.

follow bis

Mr. Snowden hoped that the International Bank under the Young Plan would be able to de- vise international co-operation for the purpose of economising the use of gold.

wers for the Executive,

The majority of the Democrats

Meanwhile, it is again reported minchun armies are moving to that considerable bodies of the Kuo-

wards the border of North Hupeh, under the pretext that famine con-

publicans feel that the powers, in driving them south. accordance with Anglo-Saxon law, should be vested in Congress.

HONG KONG GOVERNOR

IN MANILA..

LEAVES FOR BAGUIO.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

MANILA, Oct. 3.

His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., Arrived in Mauila aboard the Empress of Russia this -morning.

Meantime, he said, we must see if something can be done within

A special Guard of Honour met "our own control. Fle added that

the dietinguished visitor and the establishment of a Committee

escorted him to Malacanang Palace, of Enquiry did not imply a reflecthe residence of the Governor- tion upon British financial institu.

General, Mr. Dwight L. Davis. tions, which were pre-eminent His Excellency, and Lady Cle- throughout the world for their soundness and probity.

Alluding to the Hatry case the Chancellor foreshadowed an amend ment strengthening company law, in the light of investigations by the Board of Trade and the Treasury.

FUNERAL OF BARON TAÑAKA.

SOLEMN REQUIEM.

(THROCCH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

r.

NEW CHAIRMAN IN-

KWANGSI.

(THROUGH ASUYER'S AGENCY.}

NANKING, Oct. 3. " The Central Political Council to-day decided to dismiss Yu Tso Peh, the Chairman of the Ewangs Provincial Government and pointed General,Lut. Yuan Yen in his stead.

CAPT. BARRETT LEAVES

SHANGHAI.

NEW SUCCESSOR IN THE

POLICE..

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Oct. 3. The Council has accepted the resignation of Capt. E. I. M. Commissioner of Barrett, the

menti are remaining in Manila pro- bably until Monday when they will leave for Baguio, where they will be the guesta of the Governor-

has appointed Major F. W. Ger- mer residence. General at Mansion House, his sum-Police, who is now in England, and rard, Tram India, to succeed him.

SUGAR COMPANY'S DEBTS.

IN THE HANDS OF THE RECEIVER.

[LEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 The Cuba Sugar Cane Corpora- tion, the largest producers of raw sugar in Cuba, with nasels tatill ing over $110,000,000, went into the handa of an equity receiver here yesterday.

Toxy, Oct. 3. Impressive scènes marked the funeral of Baron Tanaka, several thousand people, including Admiral Toge and many leading statesmen, officials, and politicians attending, The Emperor, the Empress, and

The Corporation's President, the Dowager Empress, each sent a

representative, and E Colonel John R. Simpson, was ap- detachment of troops were present pointed the receiver. as a guard of honour.

The Commander-in-Chief of the British China squadron, aboard F.M.S. Kent, arrived at Yokohama this morning.

An

H.M.S. Hermes is due to-morrow. The Emperor will give audience to the Admiral and his staff to-morrow at the Palace.

And then the irony of history called upon him to complete what he had dammed for so many years. When Wirth and Rathenau, facing an outburst of anger from the na- Lion, first recognised that Germany must begin to carry out the de- Here begins Stresemann's per- sonal and historic service to Ġer- mands of her former enemies in or der to convince them that complete any. Up to that time he had The likeliest successor" to Dr, fulfilment was impossible, then the made clever moves which were in-personal

great moral counter-offensive be stinctive. Now he began to feree Stresemann, whose post as Changan which shattered the prejudices himself, for the sake of the Father land, to play European politics. cellor Herr Mueller has temporari. of the world against Germany (and

was as clever as it was pathetic), It was no pacifist and no philosop ly taken over, is the Socialist, Herr Stresemann was in the front rank her who went forth to negotiate the of those who fought against it, but Rhine pact; on the contrary, he Breitscheid.

be never did this with the comfor- was attacked by the pacifists, who table rhetorical methods of the

at first could ΠΟΥ German Nationalists. He did not thoughts and were justified in ques- wish war, but negotiations, and he ioning his motives. In the spring desired to curry out the duties im-

of 1993 he began to play for the future of Europe with a most clever personality posed by the peace, not a duties, stands out in boldi relief. It is that but only for compensation. He op- Note to France, a Note supported, of Dr. Gustav: Stresemann, during posed unconditional fulfilment. perhaps even instigated, by Lord whose five years of uninterrupted For that reason he also supported 'Abernon, the British Ambassador and at Locarno he in Berlin, rule at the Foreign Office, Germany,

Chancellor Cuno's fight in the

achieved far more than a mere defeated to the verge of annihila. Ruhr, asid pleaded for passive re-

No country has been tion in the greatest war the world sistance against the active invasion treaty. has ever seca, has made a recovery of

the French. Meanwhile, taken advantage af in Locarno, unexampled in history for ite through his founding and leader and none has triumphed." said Bir who is politically neutral, is form rapidity and completeness.

ship of the new German People's Austen Chamberlain, The leaders ing a Coalition Cabinet. Dr. Stresemaan was only bfty Party, he had gained so much in of the four nationa met and came years old, but he has left an influence that the decision as to this delible mark in the annals of his policy in the Ruhr could not have country. He was the Bismarck of beer made, or at least not so rapid-

But where ly without his approval post-war Germany. Bismarck was careless of treading

The Chancellorship. on the toes of those who stood in

Among the many figures in Ger- man polities upon whom interna tional attention has been axed at Variouz times, one

to know one another not merely as equals but as friends.

POLITICS IN EGYPT.

(THROUGH HEUTEN'S AGENCY.] ̧

Carno, Oct. 3. The ex-Premier, Adly Pasha,

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

BLAMED.

WASHINGTON, Sep. 27. A report adverse. to extension of American aid for China famine- conditions was approved and ad- opted by the Central Committee of the Red Cross here to-day.

But the new Germany was so ill EXTENSION OF FAMINE AID. prepared for all this that Strese- mann and bis suite had to leave for Locarno Irom a railway station his way. Dr. Stresemann learned! When, however, in the fall of 1923 which was barred to the public, On the lesson of the war and did his he took over the Government an and ut au unexpected hour.

Imperial Chancellor, it was Strete his return be read in a Nationalist best to step over them.

The news of his death will be munn's first duty to abandon paper that he was worse than a murderer. Stresentan received with sincere regret by the Cuno's fight in the Ruhr, and his highway many members of the present and second to carry on Rathenau's ful- accustomed the Germans to sit in last British Government who came filment policy. Ho, used other, the League of Naliana, a step for into contact with him at various methods, and it appears that his which a few outsiders, despite the means were the more fitting. Above acorn of their countrymen, had conferences."

Early Days,

all, however, it was time-three heen fighting from the beginning years having paased--which justifi- of 1918, a step which Rathenau had beer merchant ined the policy of fulfilment. In the recommended in 1921. Only now, as a result of this fortunate chain the east-end of Berlin, be rapidly hundred days of his Chancellorship

Stresemann became events, grew out of the atmosphere of the he prevented a threatened civil petty bourgeoisie by dint of his no war by stabilising the mark, and tural curiosity, bis ambition, and by this step made it possible that his gifts. His father, at great America, which meanwhile had bo sacrifice, sent him to the univern- come more neutral-minded than dics of Berlin and Leipzig for live the countries most immediately years to study economies. Young concerned, should take up the pro Stresemann's professor tried to blen of Germany's annual repara taunt him with his humble origin tione The Dawes Plan became by suggesting that be should write (Continued on next Column).

The son of a

of

European.

Ernest Bicknet, chairman of the Red Cross Commission to China, declared that foreign aid in famine. regions is not warranted because conditions there are chiefly due to the absence of a strong central gov- ernment and to the consequent ex- actions of warlords, depredations of handils and confiscatory taxu

But it is merely interesting, and not very important, whether what is right is done because of an in- sergision, or whether understand am convinced," said Mr. ing follows after the event. The, Bicknel," that continual suffering. important thing is that the right will constantly recur until we see s'strong and stable central govern- thing be done, and that was Stress- mann's great service to Europe. ment come into being.

THE PREMIER'S TRIP. SOME AMUSING INTERLUDES.

[TUHOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Lospos, Oct. 9. Reuter's correspondent aboard the liner Berengaria, by which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is travelling to Amerien, states that as the voyage is ending, wireless nessages from ships and from both continents are pouring in, most of these containing good wishes for the success of the Premier's mission.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is most gratified at receiving these mesen-

ges.

An amusing contrast is provided by a brief message asking Mr. Mac- Donald's terms for a first and ex- clusive appearance in front of a broadcasting, microphone.

"AMERICAN AMBASSADOR

RESIGNS:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

MADRID, Oct. 2. The American Linhassador, MẸ Ogden E. Hammond, has resigned.

THE PRINCESS ROYAL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

LONDON, Oct. 2. A bulletin issued to-day states that the condition of the Princess Royal has improved.

JAPAN'S MINISTER TO CANADA.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TOKYO, Oct. 3.- Mr. Iyemása Tokugawa, Japan's first minister to Canada, sailed for Vancouver this afternoon.

Two members of the United Tex- tile Workers' Union were shot dead on the spot.

The Sheriff and thres Deputy- Sheriffe were severely mauled and

sent to hospital.

GOAT MILK AND TRAFFIC,

COMEDY OF A FRENCH LAW.

[United Press.) „.

Paris." But what has goat's milk to do with the Paris traffic!' was asked of M. Chiappe, Prefect

of Police here, when he formulated the question so silly as it seems, M. new traffic laws, recently. Nor wAS

Chiappe had announced his inten- tion of putting an end to the pio sent system of selling goat's milk by itinerant vendors and everyone wanted to know why and wherefore until they thought again.

Like a modern Pan, the goat herdsman makes a pilgrimage from the Baeque country in the south to Paris, bringing with him, his flock, vending fresh goat's milk and cheese from door to door. Like Pan, too, he has his flute which he plays while he drives his flock before him through the busy streets.

Picturesque Sights.

Every summer these goat herds are picturesque sights in Paris but they have become an anachronism, since goats and motor cars don't usually go together in safety. Mov ing slowly along the crowded streeta, guided by faithful sheep- dogs, the goats latterly have prov. ed more of a nuisance to road traffic than they are an advantage to housewives.

Edict of exile for the shy-faced goats has therefore been ordered by the hard-hearted" Police Prefect and thus another Paris custom will

pasa.

There are about six herds of gönts which daily make the rounds of the streets. They will all come

BRAVE TYPIST REWARDED. under the ban. There is also aberd

of cows which are likewise led from doorstep to doorstep each morning Miss Irene Bell, a fifteen-year-providing fresh milk, mainly for old typist, of Janson-road, Strat- invalids. ford. was presented by Mr. Clarke Hall, the magistrate at Old-street Police Court, with a silver wristlet watch in recognition of her bravery in saving two women from a fire in Wilson-street, Finsbury.

The award was made by the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire.

Since there are many protests because the cows will also come under the expulsion order, M. Chiappe may show some leniency and touriata of the future may be privileged to admire the pictures- queness of the itinerant cow-herds amidst the rush and roar of a great city like Paris.

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