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NEW ATTACK ON NANKING.
MIS-HANDLING OF C.E.R.
NEGOTIATIONS,
A MUKDEN CONFERENCE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEPING, Oct. 93. Reliable sources from Mukden report that at a conference between Chang Hsueh Liang, Wan Fu Lin, and Chang Teo Hsiang, the latter declared that Nanking's negotia tions with Berlin regarding the C.E.R. controversy were a complete
failure, and in view of the prob. ability of Russia taking strong measures in Manchuria, he ad vocated that Makden commence negotiations with Moscow for settle ment of the dispute without refer. ence to Nanking.
It is reported that the conference decided to follow Chang" Tso Hsiang's suggestion.
Lu Chung Lin's Visli.
TRIBAL TROUBLES
IN KENYA.
YOUNG WARRIERS ON THE WARPATH.
PROTECTING SETTLERS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929.
ANGLO-RÜSSIAN TRADE.
OPTIMISTIC VIEWS OF COMMISSION.
A BIG FUTURE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Oct. 00. The report of the Anglo-Russiau Committee on the British trade de
RUGBY, Oct. 22 According to Press messages from Nairobi, Sir Edward' Grigg, Gover- nor of Kenya Colony, has made a tour of the territory of Wasai andlegation to Russia last March and Lumbwa tribes, enquiring into re ports of the tendency to trouble
between these trïdes. Sir Edward
April says that it is antisfied that great volume of business is avail-a able to Great Britain if diplomatid
Grigg made a statement on the sub-recognition is afforded and arrange
jeet to the Legislative Council to- day. He said that there was
the Masai and Lumbwa tribes, always a danger of collision between which were traditionally antagonis
tic.
Young warriors of both tribes
have been gathering" without the permission of their chiefs and, as
result, there had been increasing It is now established that Lunambers of cattle thefts, burglaries, Chung Lin arrived here on Monday, and disorders. and stayed at a Japanese hotel ané night, after which his movements are unknown.
It is thought he has probably gone to Shangi Lu stayed here under an assumed name.
LI TSAI HSIN TO TAKE
THE FIELD?
THE LATEST RUMOUR. (Wah Tu Fat Pao).
NANKING, Oct. 23.
It is stated in foreign sources that Chiang Rai Shek was in con. dave with Marshal Li Tsai Hein for several hours on Tuesday.. What they ducussed is still un- known.
Although their conversation has not been divulged, rumour has it that Li Tsai Hsin will emerge from hia "retirement" to participate in the campaign against the Kuomia. chun.
2.
THE "IRONSIDES."
CHANG FAT FUI REPORTED WOUNDED.
maczt
(ah Tz Fat Pao).
SEANOUAL, Oct. 23.
Any general attitude of hostility to European settlers was unlikely, but the possibility of collision be tween two tribes, caused anxiety to settlers on 'lonely farms al
Extra police had therefore been drafted into Eumbwa territory and a company of King's African Rifles had been ordered to patrol Masai territory. The carrying of arms had been prohibited in the vicinity
of the boundary between the two native territories.
THE KING'S PROGRESS.
COMPLETE RECOVERY
PREDICTED.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Oct. 99,
It is officially announced that the King spent yesterday morning shooting at Sandringham. This is the first time that he has used his guh since last November, when, while out with a shooting party at Sandringham, he caught a chill which led to his long lness.
It is some weeks since the King
ments made for financing business on long term credit, or otherwise.
The Commissary of Agriculture that the enormous demands by the in Moscow amoured last month
Soviet grain factories and colles
tive farms necessitate a treble im
port of agricultural machinery, and that the Soviet "Government
had ardened 14,050 tractors from
America
FALL OF FRENCH
CABINET.
QUESTION OF FOREIGN POLICY.
"NO CONFIDENCE" VOTE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Oct. 0
M. Briand and his Cabinet have resigned
The Cabinet resigned owing to the adoption by the Opposition of motion by 285 votes to 277 fixing November 15 for the debate on foreign policy Parliament only reassembled to-day, when M. Briand asked that the debates on
RICKSHAMEN RUN AMOK.
TRAMS WRECKED IN "PEPING.
SERIOUS RIOTING.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEPINO, Oct. 42.
A dispute between rickshamen and tramway men, led to an out- break of tremendous riota this evening, when, by order of their throughout the City, armed with union officinis, the rickshamen heavy clubs, attacked the trams in all sections of the City.
Advancing on the cars at the. ordered the trans men off the cars stopping places, the rickshamen
Those refusing were beaten, and the passengers were then. hustled foreign policy and reparations being of the cars was carried out, the
put after which systematic wreck postponed until The Hague agree windows smashed, the woodwork ripped off, and the mechanism damaged.
ment was disposed of:
How the Government Fall. M. Doumergue has accepted the
resignation of 31. Briand's twelfth
Cabifies
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Government's unexpected downfall, In the debate which led to the
a Radical Socialist deputy, second ed by a right Diehard, demanded a discussion on foreign policy before they were faced with a fait accom- pli; also a definition of the con-
Felice Helpless.
all over the City, and the Police,
The attocks were simultaneous
apparently considering themselves helpless to control the outbreak, back the crowds, allowing the sabot- confined their activities to keeping
gr
elbow room.
long hire of wrecked cars trailers. aimitur:..
The tram service was completely paralyood, and, it appears, every
The Hatamow streets were one and Other main streets were
So far, 1,770 had arrived, and the remainder were to follow in Octo ber and January New cranes are being installed · at Novorossisk Harbour to speed up their disitions of the Rhineland evacuaickahaman in the "ity was par charge from the ships.
Large orders could be placed in England for throathers and other Eglish specialities, it was stated,
if normal relations were restored, which the Commissary hoped will
be achieved as the forthcoming
megetiutions.
Litvinoff to London to concludi
ROCKET PLANE FAILS.
CATCHES FIRE AT FIRST TRIAL.
tion.
M. Briand pleaded consideration view of the international
negotiations proceding and astr ed the Chamber that it would have
free hand in the acceptance or
rejection of all agreements;' and he made the matter a question of con. fidense.
with 930
| ticipating in the sabotage, as there
available. are practically no public rickshas
Later, the rickshamen were join ed by men from the Municipal tively catinated that more than 100 Workers Union, and it is coNBETTA- wrecked trame litter the Peping
streta
RUBBER INDUSTRY PROPOSALS.
NO UNFRIENDLY SPIRIT'
TO AMERICA.
CHAIRMAN'S. ASSURANCE.
【THROUGH REUTER'S AQENOT.)
WOOL INDUSTRY DISPUTE.
FIRST STEP TOWARDS STOPPAGE.
"KEY" MEN WARNED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
། LONDON, Oct 02 The first step towards a stoppage
AMSTERDAM, Oct: 20. Mr. Sanders, chairman of the Committee of the Rubber Produ cers' Association, in a speech at a. meeting here anticipated that many in the wool textile industry na n rubber enterprises would be unabls | result of the workers', rejection of to declare a dividend. Therefore, the proposed wage cut, has been International co-operation was de taken by the Executive Committee sirable. He said that the scheme of the Managers and Overlookers for a central selling organisation Society at Bradford instructing its would be for a year. The commit members (who hold the key posi tee was only beginning its task. tions in the mills where they are He denied that the proposals employed) to conse work in the were inspired by an unfriendly | week ending November 9. spirit towards American manufac turers, and emphasised that co-
basis of equality. operation between producers and consumers was the only possible
More Support Needed.
LATER.
It transpires that the majority of the rubber,producers meeting re- presented only 30,000 tons out of the total Dutch production of 65.000. All those present represent- ed approximately 41,733 tons. The Committee intends to try to secure additional support.
FORECAST OF 1929 PRODUCTION.
[United Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. All world records for both pro- duction and consumption of raw rubber will be broken in 1929, ac-
PLANTER MURDERED.
BODY HACKED TO PIECES ON
LONELY ISLAND, -
Sydney-News of the brutal murder in the New Hebrides of a French planter named Chevalier was brought to Sydney by the steamer Makambo.
While reproving two Tongkinese labourers, whom he suspected of theft, Chevalier was set upon and literally hacked to pieces. His murderers fled into the bush, and all efforts to capture them have so far proved unavailing. Owing to the scarcity of native labour, French planters in the New Hebrides have for the past few years been importing Tangkinese from French Indo-China. M. Che-
cording to trade authorities here, valier, who was the manager of a who forsee an approximate balanconut plantation on the island of for the year at about 800,000 tons. it did through native sources, was ing of production and consumption Malo, employed Tonkinese only.
News of the tragedy, coming m There is some tendency toward sur
not very reliable. It is believed, plus production, but the increase
whose
The sabotagers are in complete control, holding up motorcars and. other vehicles, and refusing thorpected to be of disturbing size. oughfare of the streets, in which the wreckage is still proceeding.
in stocks for the year is not ex-
• Military Arrive,
riots began-soldiers were drafted At 10 p.m-three hours after the in to the City and martial law was declared. Troops and police began to clear the streets of rioters, and crowds of lookers on, and order was gradually restored. Several arreste were made
So far as is known to-night no fatalities have occurred, although
however, that Chevalier, coconut groves had been repeatedly Notwithstanding entry into the
visited by thieves, at last discover market at an average rate of 70,000 ed two of the culprits among his own labourers. He was speaking toas monthly, an extraordinary ex- pansion in the use of rubber has to the men, when one of them sud- prevented any large surplus. The denly snatched a tomahawk, and increased consumption is due in dealt him a fan blow over the. part to the record automobila pro-head. Seizing their lives, the duction of the United States, and murderers then terribly mutilated to a general increase in industrial the body, which was subocquently. uses both in European countries found not far from the planter's
house. and the United States.
The two murderers prevailed on Increased Consumption.
the other. Tangkinese "to go with American manufacturers in
Crude rubber consumption, by them into the bush. Traces of the the party have since been found, and first six months of 1000 was 268,121 native police, both British and tons, indicating a probable con- French, are joining in the search.
Foreign commissariat circles stato that the Soviet Government is 60 desirous of restoring Anglo-Russian
The German Debt. 'relations; that Stalin was credited
The Briand Government's fall with the intention of sending was due to some 40 members of the negotiations if the preliminaries at Moderate Group, which usually Reval showed equal earnestness on supports the Government, voting the part of the British Government.
members of the Left against the Government, mainly because they desired to see a com mercialisation of part of the Ger- man debt before any evacuation of the third zone of the Rhineland, thereby supporting M. Poincare's conception of the reparations pro-rickshamen when the former refussumption for "the entire year be |blem rather than M. Briand's.
The immediate cause of the out- The "Tiger's" Teeth? break is stil a mystery, although
PARIS, Oct. 23.
it is known that there has been bad Fre, tias inventor, Herr Espeniuuli,
blood between the rickshamen's and M. Clemenceau recently declared the tramway men's unions for sOIDS did not fire a second rocket but that France had yielded too much, time, both of which have been striv landed unscathed.
The rocket plane is in the form and it is possible he abetted Ming for dominance of the federation of a glider without a tail, and the Briand's downfall.
of unions in Peping.. rockets are fired off from behind the pilot's seat.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BRELIN, Oct. 33.
has been carried out at Dumeldori, The trial flight of a rocket 'plane
General Ho Chien, the Chairman went to Sandringham from Buck-but, owing to the wing catching of the Hunan Provincial Governingham Palace," following his
and Commander of tbe
second operation. The fact that he Hunan troops, and Mr. Liu Wen is able to shoot again is regarded Tao, the Nanking deputy, returned as further proof of his progress to Changsha from Pucking on towards a complete recovery. Tuesday.
Toward the end of last month it With regard to the Ironsides,"
was announced that the King's stay General Ho sail in an interview at Sandringham had eo greatly ex- that up to the present, the casual pedited his recovery that he had ties of the "Ironsides numbered begun again to take fairly long several thousand while
.over 2 rides on horseback. thousand Hunanese troops have
• been killed;
Further, it is stated that Chang Fat Fui has been wounded in action:
'FRISCO OPIUM CASE.
TRIAL TO OPEN THIS WEEK.
(Wah Tez Tat Raa).,
-
WORK ABOARD SHIPS
KNOTTY POINTS AT
CONFERENCE. ·
I
The machine was elevated by a and disconnected at a height of 8) rape for the trial by an aeroplane feet. The pilot then fired a rocket which shot the machine upward
into the air.
A second fight will be carried out shortly.
DEATH OF SIR VALENTINE CHIROL.
A FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUTHORITY,
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, Oct. 22. " The death is announced of Sir Valentine Chirol.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, Oct. 9 The committee of the Maritime Conference dealing with the hours SHANGHAI, Oct. 23. of work aboard ship, rejected by 37 The Judicial Court at Nanking votes to 24 the shipowners' proposal will commence the trial of Mr. and to consult their Governments in re- Mrs. Kao Ying, on October 25.gard to the cost and economic re- This is in connection with the San percussions of the introduction of
(Sir Valentine Chirol, one of the Francisco opium case. The Amerithe principle of an eight-hour day, can Consul will attend the court injor a 48-hour week, and decided to greatest authorities on foreiga submit to their Governments affairs, was born on May 23, 1859, person.
at the hours of overtime devoted | his father being the Rev. Alexander to certain work for the safety of a Chirol. He was educated chiefly ship wore not entitled to limitation in France and Germany, and after or compensation.
It is learned that the Central Government has telegraphically re- walled Mr. Lise En Tao, the Chi nese Minister to Cuba, as he is alleged to be connected with the
case.
Mr. Liao is the father of Mrs. Hao Ying.
THE YANGTSZE COMMAND.
NAVAL WIRELESS.}
Rear-Admiral 31cLean assumed duties of RA, and Senior Saral Officer, Yangtze, on Tuesday, Oct.
99,
Rear-Admiral Tweedie embarked on board the s.s. Kalgan on October 22 at Shanghai lor passage to the United Kingdom,
JAPANESE ARMY 'PLANES
RETURN...
A 'NON-STOP FLIGHT.
(THROUGH REUTZI'S AGENCY.]
Tokyo, Oct. 23, The two Army 'plane" left Heito, Formora, at 6 am, on their return fight to Japan. One of them Jand- ed at Tachiarai, Kyushu, at 7.18
The second place arrived at 10 p.m.
The planes had previously flown from Tachiarai to Heito, non-stop,
The committee, on the protection af seamen against sickness, rejected by 27 votes to 2 the shipowners' proposal to omit venereal disease from sickness benefit, and adopted 31 votes to 90 a resolution declar- ing the question of insurance for seamen against sickness capable of | being dealt with by an internation- al convention.
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ITALY'S PROTEST. TROUBLE WITH YUGO SLAVIA.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
BELGRADE, Oct. 22,
The newspaper Politika under-
[ stands that the Italian Legation has presented to the Foreign Minis
his studies on the Continent became
In
He saw 3. Jules Mandel, his ex- secretary, and devoted friend, just ber, and also immediately after before the sitting of the Cham.
wards, and it was after Mandel's intervention in the Chamber that the Centre began to waver, especi- ally when Mandel quoted a speech by M. Poincare insisting that the Young Plan, especially the evacua- tion of the Rhineland, could only be accepted when the financial side was fully settled.
M. Clemenceau has never forgot ten 1870, and he is adamant as regards the occupation of the Rhineland as a guarantee France's security,
INDIAN COMMAND
CHANGES.
SIR PHILIP CHETWODE'S
APPOINTMENT.
ree conductors ure suffering from severe head injuries inflicted by
ed to leave their duty.
Tramway Offices Deserted.
PEPING, Oct. 23. The city is quiet this morning, measures to prevent further riots. and the authorities are taking
Gendarmes are guarding all the wrecked trams, and troops are patrolling the street.
It is difficult to obtain details as
to the extent of the damage, as the tramuny othes are deserted, officials and employees fearing per sonal violence if they attend. It appears certain that it will be many days before the service con resume.
ween 500,000 and 520,000 tons, com- pared with 441,336 tons in the en- tire year 1929, 370.915 tons in 1927 and 308,140 tons in 1920. United States imports of unmanufactured rubber in five months ending May were 844,739,000 pounds 'valued at 8110,35,000:
Estimates of rubber consumptiva for 1929 in countries other than the United States are from 270,000 to 280,000 compared with 242,032 last year, and 221,000 in 1997.
"HOWLERS” OF THE AIR FORCE.
NEW FACTS ABOUT MALTA AND ADEN.
Air Commodore" F. W. Bowhill, Director of Organisation and Staff Duties at the Air Ministry, com- menting on the promotion examina- tions in the Royal Air Force, says:
"In addition to the usual defects, The expanding production and uses of rubber has redirected the sach as bad writing, bad spelling, attention of American experts
poor composition, carelessness in the potential production of new reading instructions and questions, rubber areas, particularly, Brazi, and irrelevance, the sketches and Liberia, and the Philippines, to diagrams submitted, with few ex- which the United States attention ceptions, were very poor. was attracted during the campaign
If candidates would practise against the British Stevenson. Re-giving answers in tabulated form striction Plan, which was discon before taking the examination they Unued a year ago.
would do much to avoid submitting verbose and irrelevant answers and
The present situation is not re- garded as definitely encouraging
either to the further development or to the abandonment of new rub
The morning vernacular papers of roundly denounce the rickshamen
for yesterday's riots, and troopster-producing regions. On the one are now guarding the wapaper offoes, fearing reprisals.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}
a clerk in the Foreign Ofice.
RUDEY, Oct. 92. 1800 he succeeded Six D: M. Wal- The King has approved the Jaco as director of the Foreign appointment of General Sir Philip Department of the Times, which Chetwode Aobe Commander-in position he held until his retire Chief in India in succession to ment in 1012. He was given a Field-Marshal Sir William Bird- knighthood in the same year. Sir wood. Valentine was a writer of apecial' With His Majesty's approval, the weight and authority on Eastern Secretary for India has invited Sir subjects, and among the best known William Birdwood who will com- of his looks are India, Old and plete five years tenure of the New" and "The Occident and the appointment on August 6, 1930, to Orient."]
'serve for a further period of three months from that date.
ATTEMPT ON PRESIDENT OF CHILE.
REVOLVER SHOTS MISS.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SANTIAGO DE CHILE Oct. 23. try two Notes protesting, firstly An Anarchist youth of eighteen against the comments of the Yugo-fixed a revolver three times at the Slav Press on the sentences on President, who was motoring from studenta, and, secondly, against, an a cattle show with his wife and alleged assault on sailors at Gruz
two Italian staff.
No one was hit, and the assail- ant was arrested..
HABIBULLAH CAPTURED?
(THROUGH RESTER'S ÄGENCY.]
Állahabad, Oct 22
on Monday. The distance is 1,800 It is reported that Habibullah kilometres, and constitutes a record has been captured at Kohidaman, achievement for Japanese military and that he is being brought back machines.
to Kabul.
COSTES' FLIGHT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]
BHANGHAI, Oct. 23. The French airmen Costes and Bellogte took off for Hanoi this morning.
[General Sir Philip Chetwode has been Chief of the General Staff in India since 1928, immediately prior to which he was G. O. C. Aldershot Command.
Field Marshal Sir William Bird wood was in supreme command of the Anzacs in France during the | war.]
PREMIER RESTING.
VISIT TO PULP WORKS.
{REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.}
QUEBEC, Oct. 92. Mr. Rammy MacDonald and his party have arrived at Chiodatini, in Quebec Province, from Montreal, where he will spend two days in resting after his strenuous pro- gramme of the Inst week or so.
He inspected the hydro-electric plant and pulp works at Chicoutini this morning.
25,000 Rioters!
LATER.
One thousand rickehamen have now been formally arrested and placed in an interment camp, pead ing the authorities' decision regard. ing the whole case. In addition to the coo men detained by the police and troops last night, 500 have been placed under arrest.
The military have scaled up the Rikshamen's Union offices. It is estimated there were at least 25,000 ricters last night.
MIDGET 'PLANE ATTEMPTS
ATLANTIC.
A, CATTLEMAN'S FLIGHT.
[DEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
HARBOUR GRACE, NEWFOUNDLAND, Oct. 22. Without disclosing his plans to Boybody beforehand, the aviator Diteman of Billings, Montana, has set out on a fight. A letter addressed to the airport officials hne since been opened, and intimate that he is crossing the Atlantic with hie destination as London.
Diteman is 32 years old, married, and has two children. He is better known as a cattleman than airman.
although he has been a licensed pilot flying for some time,
The Golden Hind," in which he started off at 5,15' this afternoon, (English time) in a small Barling seroplane, recently marketed, with an extremely low petrol consump tion, which explains why Diteman courageously took off with only 165. gations of petrol.
He is following the same course na Schlee. and Brock, who ́ ́ left Harbour Grace for Croydon with 350 gallons.
band rubber production in estab- lished producing regions is" in- creasing, on the other, the expan- sion of consumption has exceeded expectations of many experts and has occurred notwithstanding the increasing use of reclaimed rubber.
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Eastern Flantations.
In any case the new areas are not considered likely to have's ma= jor induence on the world rubber market for many years. There are now about 6,500,000 acres of plants tions in Far Eastern rubber areas, chiefly British Malaya, Dutch East Indies and Ceylon, The Firestone plantations in Líbería, according unofficial reports, consist of about 30,000 acres of trees from three to four years old. The Ford rubber concessions in the Amazon valley consist of about 2,500,000 acres of land, but extensive plant ing has occurred only within the last year, and the planted acreage is not, reported here. Rubber trees require seven years to reach maturity, so no measurable produc- tion is yet in sight from either. of
these ventures.
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obtain tetter marke accordingly."
Some of the examiners' comments on the answers of candidates are
very painted. They mohude:-
Most candidates did not appear to understand the word "char- acteristics,"
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Ex-
Many candidates endeavoured to cloak their inability to answer. 4 question by using high-sound- ing or irrelevant phrases.
aniners are mot inpressed by such sentences 13. the bombardment of the enemy's strategical and "
· tactical positions."
One candidate opened with the statement, alta is the home of the Maltese," and another with
Aden is a fortified rock lying about one hundred miles east of the bottom of the Red Sea.""
Most candidates inferred that practically all abipping between England and Australia took the Suez route," while two stated that the Cape route is a fortnight or more longer than the Suez,' The difference is actually about one thousand miles, or three days' sicuming
velopment to be of appreciable economic importance must be sup- plementary to and accompanying the plantation system...
Philippine "Possibilities. Meanwhile, the United Press un- derstands, American rubber manu-native production in the Dutchs It is pointed out that the large facturers are still actively in East Indies, was possible because terested in the possibilities of the the people there had opportunity. Philippines, but any development to learn methods of cultivation, of major proportions is considered
to depend upon the land situation. tapping, etc, from the nearby plantations, and also had access to Some hope is held that the pro- rubber markets. gramme of agricultural diversifica tion in the islands may encourage & more favourable situation for pro- duction.
Plans of the Philippines Govern ment to proinote amall-scale native productions in the islands, similar to that in the Dutch East Indies, are regarded favourably in rubber trade circles in this country, but the opinion prevails that such de- (Continued at foot of nezt column.)
The Filipino farmers have not yet thus far had a similar oppor tunity to familarize themselves with production methods, and do not have ready access to established trade, facilities. The development of small holdings in the islands would therefore presurnably be ex pedited if accompanied by develop- ment of large plantations which would train workers and build up markets.
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