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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15," 1930.

CHINA'S INTERESTS DR. SCHACHT'S NEW

IN RUSSIA.

GERMANY TO CONTINUË

TO ACT.

A NANKING MESSAGE.

(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NAKING, Jan. 14. Despite the preliminary settle- ment of the China-Soviet dispute it is learned that the German Government will continue to take of the Chinese interests in Soviet Russia until China's diplo matic "and consular representations there are fully established.

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INTERNATIONAL TRAIN SERVICES,

SURPRISE.

INTERNATIONAL BANK QUESTION.

PROTEST IGNORED.

(THROUGH RKUtek'a agency.]"

RISE OF MOTOR SHIPS.

CHIANG & FOREIGN THE BOOTLEGGING

BANKS.

EVIL

SOME SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.

WISHES го

** CURB THEIR POWERS."

AMERICAN COMMITTEE'S

TONNAGE INCREASES.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Jan. 14. Lloyd's Register of shipping re- turns for the

quarter ending December 31 last shows total

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world tonnage under construction of 3,110,850, of which 1,360,254 tons are being constructed in Britain,

The Haque, Jan. 13. Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, threw a bombshell into the conference when he informed the chairman of the organising committee of the International Bank that he "reserves, his atti-The latter igure represents an in- tude" as regards the co-operation of the Reichsbank in the Interna tional Bank. The German dele gates thereupon proposed that an other group of German banks de-Dominions. posit in the International Bank

EARLY RESUMPTION LIKELY. 109,000,000 marks, interest free, as

the Reichsbank had intended...

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

The creditors accepted the new German proposal in connection with the International Bank. The Germans promised to supply the names of the proposed bankers

ercase of 111,500 tona na compared with last September, and of 317,460 tons compared with December 1828. Tonnage being constructed Britain includes 161,000 for the

in

765,912 tons of motor-ships are under construction in Britain and $71.022 abroad. The continued pro- gress in the employment of the internal-combustion engine is in dicated by the fact that 73 motor HARBIN, Jan. 14.

ships are being built in the world, The first train from Vladivostock

each of 8.000 tons or over, com- since the outbreak of the Sine

pared with 28 steamers of similar within 30 hours. Dr. Schacht's at-

These figures include 15 Soviet dispute steamed in yester

tempt to torpedo the conference motor-ships and six eteamers of day. It is expected that the therefore failed, the delegates se-13,000 tons or over. Trans-Siberian service will be re- | verely rebuking him for "interfer-

sumed this week.

ing in politica"

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY.

TAKEN OVER BY THE GOVERNMENT.

(TANOUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, Jan. 14.

The Ministry of Railways nounces that the Canton-Hankow Railway, which was formerly a semi-official enterprise, has been completely taken over hy the Government, which will reimburse all private shareholders of the railway within six monthe.

JAPANESE MINISTER TO CHINA.

MR. YADA APPOINTED?

(Wah Tiz Fat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Jan. 14. The report that the Japanese Government has appointed Mr. Yada, the Japanese Consul t Shanghai, acting Japanese Minister to China has been con- firmned.

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NEW AMERICAN COTTON ASSOCIATION.

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

It is noteworthy that Dr. Schacht refused to become Germany's chief expert when the Government de- clined strictly to adhere to his. Memorandum, but agreed to assist if necessary. His bombshell, con-

DOVER, Delaware, Jan. 14. tained a letter to the chairman of An American Cotton Co-opera. the Bankers' Committee refusing tive Ascociation has been incor- the Reichsbank's co-operation un porated here with a capital of lest the original Young Plan were | £8,000,000, with a view to stabilisa- accepted: unless Great Britain gare tion of the cotton industry. up sequestrated German property, and unless France rénounced all inilitary and political sanctions.

Mr. Philip Snowden declared that Dr. Schacht could not veto the decisions of the Governments.

Dr. Curlius stated that the frie, inn between the Reichsbank and the German Government would be dealt with by the latter. The con- Schacht did not exist. ference is proceeding as

Dr. Schacht Subrides,

if Dr.

LATER. The German delegation has an- nounced that it will take the neces sary steps to-morrow legally to guarantee the participation and co- operation of the Reichsbank in the Bank of International Settlement.

Dr. Schacht has informed the German Finance Minister that he consequently will not attempt to evade the obligation imposed upon hin by the Agreement, which action consequently disposes of the pro- posal for other German banks to replace the Reichsbank.

Mr. Yada told Pressmen that he has

from received instructions Tokyo appointing him acting Minis- He will, he adds, stay at Shanghai for the time being as he

ter.

CONFERENCE DRAWS NEAR.

PREPARATIONS, IN LONDON.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}

Ruany, Jan. 14. The Five-Power Naval Conference will begin its work week from to-day. Although the Conference will hold practically all its meet. ings in St. James Palace, the first deems it unnecessary for him to plenary session will be held in the proceed to Peping personally. Royal Gallery of the House of As soon as he receives instrue-Lords when King George will de

liver the inaugural speech. His tions from Tokyo, he will proceed words, together with speeches which to Nanking to conduct negotiations w follow, are being broadcast for revision of the Sino-Japanese throughout the country, and ar rangements have also been made to Treaty.

relay them to different parts of Empire, in some European countries and in the United States. Seven- teen microphones have been in- stalled in the Royal Gallery for the occasion.

EXIT TANG SENG CHI!

(Wah To Fat Fao.)

SHANGHAI Jan. 14. Telegraphing to General Ho Ying Caing, General Liu Chih said that the remnants of Tang Seng Chi's

Although it is impossible to give any accurate forecast, the general view is that the Conference will last several weeks.

M. Colban, chief of the Disarma.. ment Section of the League of Nations, will attend as an abserver troops under Sun Tien Ying and without, participating in the pro Feng Hus Tang have been discedings solved and that there are no enemy

troops

the On

Peping-Hankow

Railway line at present.

RE-ORGANIZING POLICE

IN PALESTINE.

CEYLON POLICE CHIET'S MISSION.

{BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, Jan. 14. The Inspector-General of Ceylon Polion. Mr.Hethert. Dowbiggin, will leave Colombo en January 16 for Palestine, with a commission "to re-organize the Palestine Police

Forro...

POLITICS IN INDIA.

NO-TAX MOVEMENT COLLAPSES.

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DUTCH RUBBER

"PRODUCERS.

TO CONFER WITH

BRITAIN.

(TROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 13. The" Datch Rubber Producers As sociation has appointed a COIN- mittee to confer with British and other foreign producers on the question of how to improve the rubber industry.

The Association has voted a sum of £2,000 as expenses particularly to cover the cost of a. mission to the Dutch East Indies in order to discuss the regulation of planta- tion and native production.

HATRY AND WALL STREET CRASHES.

BIG SETBACK FOR STEUART.

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THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.],

LONDON, Jan. 13. At the inquest on Steuart, the jury returned a verdict of suicide The whilst of unsound mind. coroner read a letter from Steuart, stating that he suffered enormous losses which overwhelmed him.

His solicitor gave evidence and turned from a visit to Brazil, and stated that Steuart recently re found the markets against him, owing to the Hatry and Wall Street crashes, and a lot of his in- vestments, particularly rubber had a tremendous setback.

[Mr. Thomas Martin Chalmers Steuart, a Director of serversi rub- ber companies, was found shot dead in his home at Purley.]

LEAGUE COUNCIL APPOINT COMMITTEE.

KELLOG PACT HARMONY.

THROUGH Reuter's AGENCY.}

GENEVA, Jan. 14,

The League Council has approved the British proposal to appoint a committee to examine the question of amending the League Covenant in order to harmonize it with the Kellogg Pact, and to report at the next assembly.

Mr. Arthur Henderson has given LSSUTANCE that the amendments THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]..

are intended to strengthen the Covenant. CALCUTTA, Jan. 13. The French and German de- Consequent to the rigid enforce-legates associated themselves with ment of the Criminal Code ban: Mr. Henderson's views. ning all assemblies, the "No-Tax" movement has collapsed. One- fourth of the quarterly amount has already been, obtained at Bank dabbila.

Chandrknoy leader movement, is further charged with the attempted murder of the col- lactor.

PUTTING SCREWS ON!

Speaking at Kuomintang Ilead- quarters recently, Marshal Chiang" Kai Shek mainly blamed foreign banks for the recent shump in silver

though he said that native bankers

could not be held blameless. The

Government intended, however, to take measures to curb the power of Foreign banks and to prevent gold speculation in Shanghai,

The Treasury was deeply distress

ed at the chaotic state of Chinese currency and he hoped they would proceed immediately to put the Republic's anoney system On * proper basis.

The National Government would take a firm stand against, the ex- pansion of foreign banking activi ties and, if possible, endeavour to take away the powers now in the hands of these institutions.

The Government would also de its best to limit the investments of big foreign firms in China, so that the Government and people would always be able to have control of banking and economic interests.-

Chiang appealed to all Chinese people to pay their taxes and Cus toms dues in lunknotes issued by Chinese hanks, or in silver, but not in notes issued by foreign banks.

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The National Government was niso going to check the issuing of unnecessary and excessive notes by foreign banks in Chine.

PROPOSAL.

A CHANGE OF LAWS.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.

The preliminary report of the National Commission of Law Ob-

servance and Enforcement recom-

mends the immediate strengthening of the Prohibition law, "if on no other grounds than to give the law

a fair trial."

The Commision says that it is impossible wholly to separate the observance of the Prohibition Act from the large question of the views and habits of the American people, in respect of their private judgment regarding the regula tions affecting their conduct.

The Commission, proposes the transference of the Prohibition ad- ministration from the Treasury to the Department of Justice; a mo- dification of the Prohibition law; more effective legislation relating to the ownership of property used in the manufacture and sale of illicit liquor, and speedier legal proceedings.

President Hoover has forwarded the report to Congress.

CONVICTS & MORAL

STIGMA.

THE NEW ATTITUDE TO CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

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LAST OF THE ST. Telegrams in Brief.

GENNY.

EYE-WITNESS' GRAPHIC

STORY.

ONLY FIVE SURVIVORS.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

Rucby, Jan. 13. Three officers and 20 men of the

Royal Navy lost their lives in the great gale yesterday evening, when the naval tug St. Genny sank about miles Northwest of Ushant, in the Bay of Biscay. The drowned off- cer were Lieutenant Charles Fre derick Paul, Commissioned Gunder

The duty on petrol entering Cey- lon has been increased to ninepence a gallon.

The Chinese warship Tung Chi has struck a reef near Chinkiang. Rescue vessels have, goue to the

scene.

One thousand three hundred mo- torists are snowbound in a blizzard which swept over California. Fran- tic efforts are being made to clear the roads with snowploughs.

The American Postmaster-Gener al has outlined a plan for a new mail service across the North At- lantic, involving the construction of two new liners capable of a five-day crossing from New York to Cherbourg, ria Southampton.

The death is announced of Mr.

Philip Lean and Boatswain Char- Ziani De Ferranti, aged 83, a for- les Burren,

Tv St. Genny belonged to Cha tham and, with the tug St. Cyrus and the sloop Snapdragon, left „Portland on Saturday for Gibral. tar for service with the Atlantic

Fleet during the forthcoming naaoeuvres. She was a vessel of only 425 tons, used for towing when the fleet was at gunnery practice.

The Atlantic Fleet was to have sailed from Portland to-day, but owing to bad weather its departure has been delayed for 24 hours. Se- veral of the ships lost their pin- naces and other boats in the gale.

Crew Trapped.

P

search-

mer President of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and patentee of the Ferranti Alternator (1882). Ie was chief electrician to the London Electric Supply Corpora tion.

One officer was killed and two seriously injured during night fly- ing practice over Tachikawa, near Tokyo. Two Army machines collid ed when one was attempting to leave the land, and the other was making a landing. Beth machines were destroyed.

Covering the distance between London and Brussels in actual fy in time of only 90 minutes, at an average speed of 140 miles per hour, a triple screw Armstrong- Siddeley air liner, weighing nine tons, and piloted by Captain Ro- gers of Imperial Airways, bas set up a record for a machine of this size.

LONDON, Jan. 14. The five survivors of the St. Genny were brought to Plymouth in the St. Cyrus, and taken to hos- pital. They were very exhausted as a result of their struggle for life in the tremendous waves. An officer of the St. Cyrus told graphic story of the foundering of OPIUM FROM HONG KONG. the St. Genny. He said that a huge wave swept the St. Cyrus, and

CONFISCATED IN BATAVIA. Mr. Clynes, Home Secretary, their lookout-man missed the St. speaking at a meeting of the Howard Geany. They turned on League for Penal Reform, said that lights on the spot where she was the League had done much to pro-last seen, and saw several men duce a more sympathetic attitude swimming. The St. Cyrus approach. in the ordinary citizen. One of the ed as near as possible, but the most important results of that terrible seas made it impossible to changed atmosphere was the reduc. launch the lifeboat. Five men were The officer said that the St. tien in the number of offenders sent rescued by means of lifebelts.

Genny sank like a stone. It is thought that one of her bow plates wns smashed in. All those saved were swept off the St. Genny's deck. There was no hope for the rest of the crew, who were below when she foundered.-Renter.

to prison.

The state of the present money market was principally due to The number of prison sentences heavy speculation in gold. Not in England had fallen from 158,000 only was the National Government in 1914 to 43,000 in 1927. In part determined to check such specula-that was due to improved social tion but it proposed to close the conditions, particularly with the Gold Exchange.

decline in drunkenness. Imprison. ments for drunkenness had decreas ed from 50,000 in 1913 to 0,500 in 1927.

Gold Basts!

A Treasury oficial has issued a statement to the effect that a Commission has been nominated to

go

The fall in prison sentences could into the currency problem. be attributed, in part, to a greater Several American financial experts use of alternatives to imprisonment, attached to the Finance Ministry particularly to the use of the Pro- are at work on the exchange prob-bation Act, and in part to the pro- lem and according to well-informed vision in the Criminal Justice Ad Government intends ministration Act of 1914 allowing circles the adopting a new monetary unit to time for the payment of fines. The result of that beneficent provision take the place of the tael.

was that a far larger number of fines were paid and far fewer,per- sons went to prison..

The new unit will possibly be in the form of a coin, the value of which will be based on gold. For the maintenance of the gold value, the Government would have to provide big reserves in Provincialed

Banks.

TROUBLE IN APIA. CRUISER DUNEDIN ARRIVES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.?

WELLINGTON, N.Z., Jan. 14. It is learned from Apie that a proclamation has been issued dcelaring the "Mau " a seditious organisation.

The cruiser Dunedin has arrived at Apia, where parties landed on January 13 are proceeding to Saleimo where the majority of the "Mau" members are believed to be located.

other entres have been reinforced The police posts in Apia” and y marines.

WINDFALL FOR YALE UNIVERSITY.

STANDARD OIL MAN'S BEQUEST.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN BERTICE.]

NEW YORK, Jan. 13. Mr. Edward Stephen Harkness, whose father.

of the original partners in the Standard Oil Company, has donated nearly £4,000,000 to Yale University, with which Yale will build five now

WIL one

buildings with quadrangles, model led on Oxford and Cambridge. . .

CAUSE, AND CURE

OF WAR.

'WOMEN REPRESENTATIVES OF SIX NATIONS TO MEET.

What women of the six great Powers can do to strengthen the determination of their respective Governments to build and support international peace-making machi nery will be the main topic for dis- cussion at the fifth annual confer ence on the Cause and Cure of War in Washington from January 14 to

17.

(THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

Customs officers have confiscated

500 pounds of opium hidden in a Consignment of cement from Hong Kong.

One Chiness has been arrested.

BISHOP'S TRIBUTE TO HIS DOG.

THANK GOD FOR SUCH

A FRIEND."

The Bishop of St. Albans, Dr. Michael Furze, recently sustained a great loes by the death of his dog. Peter. In a letter to the diocese he says:-

"I cannot close without a word about a dear friend of some four- teen years' standing who has now passed on. There are, I think, few parishes in the diocese which our dog Peter did not visit. The last year or so he aged a good deal in body but never in spirit. We koew we could not have him with us much

longer, but we both looked forward to one mere holiday with him, for he had the holiday spirit as much as any human being I have ever known.

A Successful Innovation. Whatever réform might be effect in prison, it was a far greater reform to keep people out of prison altogether. A striking illustration of the changed atmosphere in the prisons was the arrangement made in the last six or seven years for unofficial visitors to go into the

Three women from Europe and

"He slept in my dressing-room, one from the Orient will go to and when he saw me put on golfing prisons and talk to the prisoners.

There were some 50 men and Washington to confer with 30 re- clothes, in the morning he would women at present engaged in that presentatives from each of 10 never let me out of his sight until bational women's organizations the time came to be off for play. work. The experiment of allowing which for four years in the United Later, eighteen holes were a bit too visitors to pass through the prison States have been studying the much for him, so when we came to gates, to be given a cell key, and

causes and cures of war.

the turn he would just walk back to to visit private prisoners in their

The "foreign visitors will be Miss the car and wait. Whatever time. cells would have seemed a perilous Kathleen D. Courtney of England, I got back home at night he would innovation to the officials of the pre- honorary secretary of the British be there to welcome me just as if War period. But now the experi- Women's Peace Crusade; Fran he had not seen me for months, and ment had proved to be a striking Dorothea von Yelsen, president off by chance he had gone upstaine the German League for Equal Citi- to bed, when he heard me come in It is of great benefit to the prizenship for Women; Mme. Marie down he would come and not go to oner to have visits from friendly Louise Puesch of France, vice-pres- bed again until I did. There were him in touch with the world of out men and women, whose talk kept dent of the International Federavery few things that Peter did not

tion of University Women, and Mrs. understand. side interests, turned his thoughts Taune Gauntlett of Japan, one of derful power of sympathy and was He had such a won- to the prospect of making a new

the leaders in organizing start, lessened his selfishness, and

the extraordinarily welcoming not mere. Japanese women's petition for ly to his special friends but to any discouraged self-pity, which was 80

peace. Miss Ruth Morgan, vice-one who came to the house; a very common a failing with prisoners.,

president of the National League big heart and a little gentleman. Prisoners Ordinary Mortals. of Women Voters, will represent the He leaves a great gap in the home,

United States. This scheme had also helped to

but we have a lot to thank God for dispel the illusion that prisoners

In announcing the date for the to have had such a friend for all

Carrie Chapman these years." meeting. Mrs. Catt, chairman of the national committee on the cause and eure of war, enid :-

Buccess.

were

a class of men and women

separated from ordinary humanity, not only by the prison walls but by some deep moral cleavage. Prison visitors had learned that most Prisoners were just ordinary men, similar in most of their characteris ties to those with whom they rubbed shoulders in the outside world.

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DOG HERO'S DEATH AT 22.

FOUGHT THE BATS IN FLANDERS.

Jack of Putney," one of the

"It is apparent that there would be no more war if the six great Powers, with their vast armies, navies had resources, should agree to have peace. For this reason For many an offender the greatest women from these nations have dog heroes of the war, recently hardship was not in enduring prison been invited to consult with Ameri- died at the grand old age of 22. conditions but the difficulties which can women upon the next steps On the western front he moved confronted him when he passed out which must be taken and upon the about in the British trenches, doing of the prison gates.. He was up-

existing gaps in the international his bit by checking the great menace rooted from his social environment, peace programme.

-the rat invasion. He killed more and the prison, stigma made it ex- The 10 organizations which cothan 1,000 of these enemies and took tremely hard for him to regain a operate in carrying on the commit part in the retreat from Mons. Ho position in society. The knowledge tee, and the conferences are Ameri was gossed after "serving" in the

Association which the prison visitor acquired of can

of University trenches for three years, and for the prisoner was spread among Women, Council of Women for more than six months his life hung

of in the balanée. Federation friends and acquaintances, and con- Home Miesions,

Ho suffered doubly from the tributed towards the change of Woman's Boards of Foreign Mis attitude in the general public to nions of North America, General effects of the poison gas and from

Women's Federation of

Clubs, the sorrow of having lost his be the ex-convict,

The ideal at which administrators National Board of the Young loved master, He had also been Association, wounded on several occasions, and were aiming was to return the pris Women's Christian oner to normal life, better fitted National Council of Jewish Women, it was therefore some time before for freedom than when he left it; National Federation of Business he fully regained his health. In but all their efforts were liable to and Professional Women's Clube, Putney he then settled down and

frastruted

National Lunless the prisoner 13t

League of Women became an ideal house dog. On his Ter some hope thar on DIS TEIERES TORTORA STACH A TO A

Women's Trade Union League. 'and was ́" starred " in a film.

RIOTING IN S. AFRICA.

EUROPEANS, HURT."

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,] CARNARVON, Cape Province,

Jan. 13. The Mayor and several other Europeana and a number of natives Arrested Italian.

were injured through rioting at the GENEVA, Jan. 13. Municipal Offices, due to native The arrested Italian is described dissatisfaction over the holdings of as a lawyer living in Paris, and a municipal commonage. They were SZEK Hasin ningni kataemás peccbrant a the notorious able satisfactorily to explain his mass meeting by prescace here and will be sent back native agitator "Professor" Thacle, he would have an opportunity of tian Temperance Union, National real birthday cake, with 91 candles,

who was arrested, but escaped.

to Paris.

social reinstatement.