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WOMEN'S INTERNA- TIONAL LEAGUE.

RECEIVED BY PRIME

MINISTER..

TO UNITE PEACE WITH SECURITY.

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INDIAN RAILWAY

STRIKE.

MORE SERVICES DIS. ORGANISED,

ARREST OF UNION PRESIDENT.

THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.]

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930.

BOMBAY, February 6. The railway strike position is growing worse and the suburban services are disorganised.

The strikers have been threatened

LONDON, Feb. 8. Mr. Ramsay MacDonaki, accom panied by Mr. Wakatauki and Mr. Stimson, received, at St. James' Palace, a deputation of women organised by the Women's, Inter- with dismissal unless they resume national League for Peace and duty on Saturday. Two pickets Freedom, including the Japanese were arrested including the Presi delegation with a petition. The dent of the Red Flag Union... League ha afiliations of forty countrica.

The resolutions presented on be bali of the people to the conler-

FOUR OFFICERS SHOT.

ring Powers, except Italy, also an ALLEGED DISTRIBUTION OF

international resolution urging the drastic reductions in all types of Naval armaments, particularly the abolition of battleships.

FORGED NOTES.

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RIGA, Feb. 5.

-FIRE ON LINER.

ONE MILLION YEN DAMAGE:

FOUR DEATHS.

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·TOKYO, Feb. &.

The N.Y.K. 17,000-ton moter-shop Tatsuda Maru which was due to start her maiden trip shortly has heen seriously damaged by fire which broke out while completing equipment at the Nagasaki Dock yard. The damage is estimated, at a million yen. Twenty-four cabina were gutted and four workmen were, burnt to death.

NAVAL CONFERENCE.

TO END SOON.

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LONDON, Feb. 5.

The proceedings of the Naval Conference were continued to-day again, preparatory to the heads of Mr. MacDonald, in replying, tri-

The four Monarchist officera,

the delegations meeting in the even- buted womCA

ea pioneers of the

Gaier, Fedoroff anding at St. James's Palace; while in work of preparing the way for the Schiller, Conference, he declared that what Kartushev, whom the Soviet Supre- addition, Mr. H. L. Stimson and Tardieu-are meeting- Mr. ever the result of the present Con-me Court sentenced to death an

January 23 for alleged distribu- Ramsay MacDonald to consider ference was it would not be the

tion of forged Chervonetz notes,

the position reached at yesterday's Inst word on disarmament.

first committee meeting. have been shot.

Mr. MacDonald proceeded to out- line the complexities of the eitus- tion and the tremendous difficulties in reaching an agreement owing to the various nations' diffèrent needs.

Mr. MacDonald thought the Can- ference would come to good agree- ment, but even if all expectations

the greatest were not fulfilled, achievement would be that the nations assembled would reach a moral understanding, Not only superfluous ships but superfinous programmes must be scrapped, the great problem for solution was to unite peace with security, which in nine-tenths its composition was psychological.

Mr. Stimson also shortly spoke but Mr. Wakatsuki smilingly de- clined..

SUBMARINES TO REMAIN.

FRENCH COMPROMISE

DISCUSSED.

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LONDON, Feb.

The British Commonwealth dele- gates met to-day and discussed the British Memorandum reply to the French compromise proposal.

It regards the suggestion reade yesterday that submarines should be humanised and not abolished is out painted.

THOMPSON SPEED TROPHY.

PRESENTED TU GREAT

"BRITAIN,

(KIUTER'E AMERICAN SERVICE]

It is now stated that the French standpoint has not been varied.

M, Tardieu arrived in London this afternoon and was welcomed as the station by M. Briand and members of the French Dolegation. M. Tardien returned to Paris wy Friday,

The French have expressed antis- faction at the progress so far made at the Conference.

Another Three Weeks:

PARIS, Feb. 8.

A Cabinet Council communique has further shown the opinion ex- pressed in French quarters in Lon.

to-day that the would conclude its labours thres weeks hence.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Senator Bingham to-day present- ed the Thompson Speed Trophy won by Great Britain in the Schneider Trophy races in Septem-on ber, to Sir Esme Howard, the Bri- tish Ambassador.

The presentation was made at Embassy the British

the and trophy will remain there until a new record has been established.

A smaller model of the trophy becomes the permanent possession of the record-breaker squadron Leader Orlebar.

LINERS OVERDUE.

MINNEKAHDA DAMAGED.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK, Feb. 5. Three Atlantic linera, 'the Cameronia," Dresden and Min- nekahda, arrived in New York to day, just three days late, as a res sult of serious fogą, heavy gales and stormy seas.

While the British stili hold that submarines should be abolished, the question of humanising them ori ginated not with France but with Nobody was injured in the cross Britain supported by the Uniteding, but a huge sea shipped by the States.

MR. MACDONALD SATISFIED (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, February 3, Mr. MacDonald has authorised Reuter to state that Es is quite satisfied with the progress of the Naval Conference.

The suggestion that the Domin ions are bringing pressure or caus- ing any difficulty is quite untrue.

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SETTLEMENT REACHED.

AMENDMENT ACCEPTED.

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LONDON, Feb. 5.. Lord-Parmoor, for the Govern- ment, moved in the House of Lords to-day the compromise amendment passed by the House of Commons. yesterday to the Lords amendment to the Unemployed Insurance Bill He said the compromise amend ment did not delete the time-limit imposed by the House of Lords upon the operation of the Bill, but it extended the limit of one year to Juno, 1833,

Lord Salisbury, for the Consez- vatives, said he did not intend to ask the House to refuss the mo- tion, which was thereupon passed without a division.

The deadlock between the House of. Lords and the House of Com- mons over this matter was thus end-

ed.

WASHINGTON'S NEW

POLICE CHIEF.

A CAVALRY OFFICER.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. President Hover has prevailed upon Major-General H.B. Crosby, the senior cavalry officer in the American Army, to accept the post of Commissioner of Police in Washington "in order to .casure that the Capital shall be free of organised crime.

Minnekahda on Friday damaged her lifeboats, smashed some of her ventilatora and tore away fifteen feet of railing. The smoking room

was flooded.

CHURCH AND STATE,

GRAVEST CONFLICT SINCE REFORMATION.

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LONDON, Feb. 5.

The Church Assembly, which was held at Westminster to-day, passed

Conference

The Government were closely questioned in the House of Com- mens to-day regarding Naval Re-

ductions. The Reductions.

Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord, replied that the reductions wero in" pursuance of the Government's Naval Policy, which Mr. Mac- Donald fully stated on July 24, 1020, making clear that, as tha policy progressed, reductions in the new programme, either by sus- pension or cancellation, were pro bable.

The Government, after the fullest examination of British Naval needs and the consideration of the econo- mical use of public money, consi- dered that the revised provision now made was adequate.

Later, Sir Charles Cayzer asked if the Premier intended to pursue. a policy of unilateral disarmament, regardless of the facts and circum- stances.

"Certainly Not!"

Mr. MacDonald replied "Cer. tainly Not. This is a well-devised programme, consistent and well within the requirements of Nation- al 'Security."

The Heads of the Naval Delega- tions met as St. James'a Pilice this evening and decided to hold a plenary meeting of the Confer- ence at eleven o'clock on the morn- ing of February 11, to discuss the question of submarines. The first committee will first meet to-morrow at 3 p.m.

French Disappointed. There was some frank speaking at the meeting of the British Em-

WILS

a resolution, moved by the Arch-pire Naval. Delegates this afternoon bishop of York in favour of the np about the tardiness of progress. It pointment of a Commission by the felt that things were going Archbishopsto inquire into the well, but too slowly. present relations of the Church and the State, and particularly into how far the principle that the Church is entitled to formulate its faith in Jesus Christ is effectively applicable....

The Bishop of Winchester said that the gravest conflict between the spiritual and the secular since the Reformation was impending.

The Bishop of Durham declared that the only solution to spiritual independence was Disestablishment.

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EX-PRESIDENT TAFT'S ILLNESS.

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SUDDEN COLLAPSE.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Little hope is now entertained for the recovery of Mr. William Howard Taft, who collapsed sud- denly recently and has been seri oualy ill ever since.

The doctors say that high blood pressure has developed and this any may cause heart failure at time.

Mr. Taft's two sons have been summoned to the bedside from Cincinnati while President Hoover. and Mr. Hoover visited the dying ex-President yesterday after

noon.

Subsequently, Mr. Smiddy, of the Irish Free State, was the spoken man in this connection at the meet- ing, of the Heads of the Delega. tions, when his criticism was gener- ally endorsed by the French, whe were especially disappointed: for this reason it was decided to call a plenary meeting to deal specifi-" cally with submarines.

In the meantime, to-morrow's meeting will again tackle the cruci- al question of global tonange and categories.

To-night, 500 guests attended a Government reception at Admiralty House, in honour of the Conference, including the Heads of the Delega tions and many members and ex- members of the Cabinet,

MATCH MONOPOLY. RATIFICATION OF YOUNG ·

PLAN FORECASTED. CASTED

BERLIN, Jan 28. The Reichstag. by a large, ma jority. has passed the Match Mono poly Bill, which embodies an agree- ment with the Swedish Match Trust under which the Reich obtains a 600,000,000 marks loan, of which half will be payable after the rati Acation. of the Young Plan.

The passage of the Match Meno. poly Bill is believed to forecast the ratification of the Young Plan.

DEATH OF SIR HENRY

GOMPERTZ.

The death is announced of Sir Henry Heaney Johnston Gompertz," [The late Sir Henry Gompertz was born in 1887.

He was educated at Bedford and Exector College, Oxford. He went to the Straits Settlements in 1880, and in 1897 he acted as Assistant Registrar General in-Hong-Kong. Ho qualified in three dialects of Chinese and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1809. He was Assistant Colonial Secretary, 1900, Senior Magistrate 1907. Puisne Judge Supreme Court 1909-1925, and was appointed the Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States in 1925.]

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CHINESE FOREIGN LOANS.

CALL FOR CONCERTED ACTION.,

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---LONDON, Feb. 5. This morning's newspapers give prominenci

report ̈upon economic conditions in China, com- piled by Sir H. H. Fox, the Com mercial Counsellor to H. M. Lega- tion in Peking, and Mr. H. J. Brett, Commercial Secretary to the Legation, and published by the Department of Overseas Trade.

The Press, in commenting upon the views set forth, pay particular attention to the question of Chin ese foreign loan

The City Editor of the Morning Pots for example, contrasts the smooth running of ho domestic loans raised by the Nanking Go vernment with the default in pay menta on the foreign loans.

He says that the fact that do- mestic loans are secured upon the increased Customs revenge, regard. "less of the prior claims of foreign- leans, would appear to call for con- certed action on the part of for- eign bond-holders.

BANK RATE LOWERED.

NOW 4 PER CENT.

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LONDON, Feb. e.

The Bank of England discount rate has been fixed at fi per cent.

CONSERVATIVE POLICY.

TARIFF TRUCE.

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BRIGANDAGE RIFE.

WOMEN' MISSIONARIES

CAPTURED.

TAKEN OFF STEAMER.

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SHANGHAI, Feb. 6. Miss E Cajander, Mia E. E. Ingman and Miss A. A. H. Hen- dengron of the China Inland Mission were captured by briganda On February 3 while travelling by boat between Chang Shu and Kian-

"WILKINS-HEARST EXPEDITION.

WIRELESS IRREPARABLY

DAMAGED.

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to

NEW YORK, February 6. For eight days and nights wire- less efforts to reach Sir Hubert Wilkins have failed according to a despatch from the Antarctic New York. The American losa of contact was reported from the s.. Melville, the base ship of the Wilking-Hearst expedition now at Deception Island,

NARROW ESCAPE OF PRESIDENT RUBIO.

YOUTH FIRES SIX SHOTS.

WOULD-BE ASSASSIN'S

SILENCE,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5. At the conclusion of the ceremony of the Presidential Inauguration a youth fired six shots at President Rubio.

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The shots were fired just a Pro-

sident Rubie's car was leaving the

wearing-in of the Cabinet

The report says that Wilkins' Fur in Kiangai, the attack occurring Fontire personnel is somewhere in the three miles from Kian Fu. The vast area of broken ice south of the captives, who are all Finnish, frst.a. Melville.

It is feared the wireless, came to China in 1888, 1903, 1900, Wilkins' abip William Scoresby is War and interrogated, but he re-

respectively.

ANARCHY IN KWANGTUNG.

HUGE HAULS OF "PRISONERS."

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, Feb. 6.

irreparably damaged.

TRADE WITH RÚSSIA.

LABOUR SCHEME.

од

One shot hit a bystander, who as sent to hospital, while the as- sailant was immediately placed un- der arrest. The wound-be assassin was taken before the Minister for

fused to answer questions. authorities expresse the opinion that he was a religious fanatic

Condition Not Serious.

Whe

It was officially announced that -n bullet had struck the President in the jaw, and that the bullet had lodged itself.

moned to attend the injured an Some time later, the doctors aum nounced that the bullet had been

extracted and

that

President

Rubio's condition is not serious.

Wile's Narrow Escape, 'One of the shots grazed the Pre

[BRITISH WIRELESS 'SERVICE:)]

RUGBY, Feb. 5. Miss Wilkinson, the Labour mem- Banditry is very rife in the out-ber, initiated a debate in the House lying districts of the Province at ef Commons on trade with Russia. the present time. The steam launch She moved that, in view of the grave state of unemployment in this Sun Wo on the Canton-Sheki run, was pirated a week or so ago off country, particularly in heavy in- Ang Ko Taut on the West river.

dustries and the imperative need All the passengers on board, sum for new markets for British goodssident's wife, while his little nioo0, bering over 900 were taken captive the Government should energetic Senora Ofelia Ortega, was slightly to the mountains. The entire cargo ally explore every avenue which wounded. was also taken, but the pirates would lead to the increase of trade were good enough to return the boat with Russia, and that, in order to and leave four members of the crow put this trade on a stable basis, a unmolested.

commercial agreement should be ar- ranged between the two countries.

THE MANCHURIAN SITUATION.. SOVIET AND JAPAN BLAMED.

Anather bullet hattered the windscreen, showering glass over the chauffeur, Rubio's secretary, his sister-in-law and Senora Ortega

Anti-Reelectionist,

It appears that the assailant is twenty two years of age. He has admitted that he is an adherent of Vasconcellos, the candidate of the "Anti-Reelectionist Party, whom Rubio defeated in the Presidential election.

From the northern" part of the

Old Debts Must Be Settled. Province, in the vicinity of Shui- kwan, similar reports have also been

Mr. Gillett, Secretary for the received. Thus the village of Ping Overseas Trade Department, reply Ching, some 10 miles from Shui- kwan, WILA

Backed last Tuesday ing to the discussion, said his De night by a gang of bandits, said partment had done what was often done by go-ahead business firms to be under the notorious Wu Chan Ngok. Over 20 houses were burnedt had sent out representatives to and 2. scord of villagers taken investigate the position in Russia. The Government were doing every

Over fifty thousand people had" captive.

thing possible to

great increase trade thronged the

National with Russia. "If Russia desired to Stadium to witness the inaugural raise credit in this country, the ceremony, which terminated in anch settlement of various debt questions dramatic fashion. was a fundamental necessity if any

Presidential Address. President Ortiz Rubio, in a.. arge amount of money was going to be secured in this country. speech which was loudly applaud- When one looked atthe position ed, pledged the Government to five of the London money market to years of hard work He promised day, faced with the recent financial an immediate attack on outstand crisis and the effect of the slump ing economic and social problems... in the United States, one knew per- The President also warned coun- fectly well that for any country ter-revolutionaries that the social at present there were special diffi- movement, calties in raising losas on the Lon-Revolutionary Governments of championed by the don money market.

Mexico, was a fait accompli. The restoration of a Conservative, even of a Moderate, system was impos- sible because the country was in tent upon the radical work of re- gaining the heritage of its raon.

(Wah Tz Yat Fab.)..

The Government had to bear this matter in mind and it was impos sible to expect that to any great extent they could be responsible for finding credit for any other Goy ernment under present conditions.

SHANGHAI, February 3. "Manchuria has become, the ob ject of Soviet and Japanese aggres sion" is the pessimistic view, ex pressed by Mr. Wu Teh Chen, a prominent Nanking leader who has just returned from Manchuria and Taiyuan. He said that the situation in. Manchuria WES exceedingly critical, but, fortunately, both Yen Hai Shan and Chang Hsueh Liang are fully supporting the Central Government.. LONDON, Feb. B.

He hoped people Mr. Stanley Baldwin, outlined the would not neglect the situation inHope For Commercial Agreement. Conservative policy to a crowded the Three Eastern Provinces but do Party meeting at the London Coli-. all they can to avert the danger. scum to-day, and said that he

CHIANG'S -EXPEDITION would never co-operate with the present. Government's efforts to ar range a tariff truce. He was try- ing to find out what could be done to rationalise industry Imperially, and not merely domestically.

Every effort should be made to effect arrangements between the in dustries (not the. Politicians) of Great Britain and the correspond ing industries of the Dominons and India...

To Fortify Imperial Trade.

It was necessary that no Euro- pean commitments should be made which would prevent us from ex- tending the policy of preference in order to supplement and fortify Imperial trade agreements on the whole.

The Empire must be visualised as a unit. He wished to see Con- ferences between the British and Dominions' representatives of such industries as steel, cotton, and wool, to discuss the types of pro- duation which the Dominion in dustries might fairly manufacture exclusively for their own markets, and what British manufactures should be sold in those markets.

Mr. Baldwin said that the de velopment of the Crown Colonies was primarily a question of money. It must be the earnest endeavour of any Government to do the" utmost to benefit trado entering these Colonies, particularly the cotton trade.

Resente Secret Diplomacy. Mr. Baldwin said that it made his blood boil to see the way the State-controlled Rusian Press and Russian statemen referred to the

Conserva British Government. tives resented the secrecy in which British and Russian diplomacy was carried out. A far more serious thing was the persecution of Chri- stians in Russia, and the Govern- ment's indifference to it was in- explicable.

SOUTH.

· (Wah Tri Tat Pao.)*

SHANGHAI, February 6. According to vernacular. Press, Chiang Kai Shek will sail directly to Canton and will not pass through Hong Kong.

Mr. T. V. Soong has raised $1,000,000 for Chiang's expenses in the South..

HUPEH'S POLITICAL

COUNCIL.

(Wah Tz Yat Pao:).

NANKING, February 6. The Central Political Council has ordered the Provincial Government of Hupeh to be reorganized with General Ho Cheng Chun as its chair

man.

THE GUARDS! (Wah Tiz Yai Pao.)

NAYEING, February 6. The Central Government guards has been increased to a brigade and Chiang Kai Shek has appointed Yu- Chih Shih as the commander..

MO AGREES TO ATTEND MOSCOW CONFERENCE.

(Wah Tiz Yat Pao.)

NANKING, February 8.

It is understood that Mr. Mo Teh Hui is now willing to proceed to Moscow to attend the Sino- Russian Conference 15 China's plenipotentiary. He will be accom- panied by fifty attendants, most of whom are on the staff of the Chi- nese Eastern Railway. The travel- ling and other expenses will be de frayed by the Railway.

TSAI YUN SHENG TO BE PUNISHED.

(Wah Tat Tat Pao.)

SOVIET MASSACRE.

AN INVENTION.

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NANHINA, February. 8. The Central Political Council has Moscow, Feb. 5. decided to punish Taai Yun Sheng The report of the Massacre in for signing the Habarovsk Protocol Russia of hundreds of Naval offi- without the approval of the Central cers, is oficially described as a Government. Teai is reported to "ridiculous invention of the Rigabe going abroad. (This is confirmed White:Guard Press."

by a Reuter telegram),

Daughter Escapes.

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6. The President's lower left jaw was broken by the bullet lodging in bis check. He was removed to his bome and then to hospital.

There was evidence that a large proportion of the businese done with Russia would not have been undertaken without the assistance of the exports credit scheme: The

The President's little daughter action of the Labour Government in

was the only occupant of the presi opening negotiations with Russia dential car who was unhurt.. It had already resulted to a small ex-was fortunate the chauffeur was not tent in increased export trade, and seriously enough injured to stop the what was equally or more import car, for eye-witnesses declare that" ant, better feeling between the two the assailant had several nations, which was likely to lead panions with him. to better results in the future.

The Government hoped very shortly that a commercial agree

ment would be entered into between the two countries.

The motion was agreed to,

DRUG ADDICTS IN EGYPT.

OVER. HALF A MILLION.

BERLIN, Jan. 97.

A poignant picture of the ravages wrought by the drug habit in Egypt was painted for the Opium Committee by the Egyptian dele Fation. led by Russel Pasha, "the Cairo Police Chief.

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Seven arrests have been made.

Russel Pasha declared that the most draconic punishment had fail- ed to exterminate the drug traffic because of the gigantic profits ac- cruing therefrom.

Furthermore, he deplored the fact that fully 500,000 Egyptians had be come drug addicts-the practice affecting all strata of the popula tion, and especially the ruralists, whose strength is being "slowly sapped.

He declared that most of the opium, cocaine, morphino, eta, which is asmuggled into Egypt, emanates from France and Switzer. land,

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