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LITTLE PROGRESS AT NAVAL CONFERENCE.

HELD UP BY PRENCH CRISIS.

ITALY'S DEMANDS.

(TAROUGH SKUTER'S, AGENOT.)

LONDON, Feb. 18.

GANG RAID IN

SHANGHAI

FOUR "PERSONS KILLED.

COMMUNIST LEADER AMONG DEAD.

(THROUGH REUTER'1 AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Feb, 19.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1930.

CANTON CURRENCY. TROUBLE · BREWING

MERCHANTS HARD HIT:

GOVERNMENT NOTES. AT A DISCOUNT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

IN NORTH.

"MANCHURIA, SITS ON THE

FENCE...

ANTI-NANKING MOVEMENTS

[FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

PIPING, Feb. 19,

important meeting at Mukden to discuss their attitude towards the

The Manchurian leaders held an

SOVIET RESENTS INTERFERENCE

"A HOSTILE ACT."

RUSSIAN PRIMATE'S

ASSERTIONS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

......

17.

Moscow, Feb. 18. son's reply in the House of Com- Referring to Mr. Arthur Hender- mons in regard to religious liberty

British Government has undertaken

SOVIET MISSION TO AMERICA.

A £500,000,000 DEVELOP- MENT SCHEME.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

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NEW YORK, Feb. 19. One of the most important Soviet missions, which has ever visited the United States has arrived. It in- cludes Sumilaff, Assistant Commis

seventy technical experta. of Communications,

sar

with

RUSSIA TO-DAY.

ITS VICES AND VIRTUES.

NOTED LECTURER'S SPEECH

IN CANTON.

[YROM OUR OWN CORREAPONDENT. Į

CANTON, Feb. 10.

formed the topic of Dr. Sherwood "The Real Situation in Russia "

Eddy's speech delivered yesterday in Tungshan before a group of high officials of the Canton Government.

CANTON, Feb. 19. The Canton Government appear to be again facing financial chaos. Seven gangsters last evening raid-It is forcing the merchants to ac ed No. 314, Route Cardinal Mercier, cept its banknotes of one dollar The hope that the French poli- in the French Concession, and shot denomination, while its own instit present crisis in the North. Ged in Russia, the Investia says that the understood that it is connected with The speech wae given in compliance tical crisis would quickly be disfour of the inmates dead and tious refuse to take them. posed of, permitting the Conference wounded two. to go on with its work unhampered, oppetra to be deferred,

Thus

the Caton-Kowloon Railway, the

eral Chang Hauch Liang, who pre- aided, expressed the opinion that

the £300,000,000 programme

It is

for

with the request of the local author- itics who had invited him, to the

The dead include the Communist Canton Waterworks, and other the supreme duty of the Manchurian to interfere in a question unrelated road and railway development luncheon, Dr. Eddy said in part:: A message from Paris states that leader Wang Loh Ping, a native of Government enterprises have of late Government should be to preserve to England or British and Soviet which the Soviet is reported to be President Doumargue received the leading politicians at the Elysee to-day, in the hope of a settlement being arranged.

The public seems to have taken less interest in the political crisia than in the reappearance: of M. Poincare, who looked the picture of health and spent half an hour at the Elysee. The crowd's interest was centredia M. Poincare, and there was much speculation as to whether he would again take.com- mand.

M. Poincare's friends, however,

Shantung and ex-member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, and Pan Teh Chien, a graduate of Whampoa Academy.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON HIMALAYAS.

BRITISH CLIMBER.

ENTERTAINED.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, Feb. 19.

The Alpine Sports Club last night declare that he is not yet strong intertained. Mr. F. S. Smythe who 'enough to re-enter politics, and has been selected as the British will not be for a few months. He member of the International moun- himself is very reluctant to co-taineering expedition which is to visit the Himalayas and attempt in early Summer ascent of mount

Bider re-entry.

The former Minister, M. Berard, on leaving the Elysee, stated that

he was not so sure that the crisis would be quickly settled.

Kanchenjunga.

Replying to the toast proposed by Italian Memorandum Ready,

Mr. Amery, the former Colonial [BXITISH WIRELESS SERVICE. ]

Secretary, who is an enthusiastic RUGBY, Feb. 15. In the absence of the chief mountaineer, Mr. Smythe said the French delegates, owing to the leader of the expedition, Professor political crisis in Paris, little pro- Bryhrenaan, had been making plans gress was made to-day in the work of the London Naval Conference, for twenty years, and had been but consultations between the other greatly assisted by his wife. He delegations are proceeding, and hoped to get permission to attack this afternoon, at the House of the mountain from the Nepal side Commone, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald met Signor Grandi and Mr. H. L. and approach it from the West. Stimson.

Sir Martin Conway said that they

accounts.

refused to take in the banknotes of this denomination in settlement of The Canton Power and Light Company, a private firm, has followed the example of the Govern. ment enterprises and likewise refuse to accept these banknotes."

The poor merchants, however especially the restaurant keepers, have no choice but to accept them.

The Root of the Trouble.

These banknotes are supposed to be redeemable at par value at the Government Depository, but the silver given out is largely bad money. This is the root of all the apprehension and distrust in fican- cial circles here. One persos said that over 90 per cent. of the old coins given out at the Bank in exchange for the banknote are counterfeit. In the market these dollar bills are worth about 90 cents silver.

Another run has been started on the Central Bank of China- to-day. The people prefer the bad old colus to the banknotes. But only the one dollar rates are redeemable at present. The Government De- pository is crowded with people to-day."

Taxes to be Paid in Silver.

nomination fa payment of taxes.

This has

The Government announced to day that it would not take in any more banknotes of whatever de It is understood that Signor could not expect that beyond twenty All taxce from now on will have Grandi disclosed.. the contenta of

to be paid in silver. the Italian Memorandum, which thousand feet the members would will shortly be circulated to the bave a very pleasant time. Mount created further apprehension, and delegates and published.

Kanchenjunga bad to him the ap- Government baaknotce have slump- When this document is before the Pearance of being much more dified to-day, the quotation being

about 71 per cent. conference, the considered views of cult than Mount Everest. all the delegations will be known, and figures will be available which will form a basis to the different Powers in the various categories of ships for which a skeleton table haa been prepared.

It is stated that the Italiaa Memorandum will reafhrm Italy's original viewpoint of desiring the conference to arrive at a limita- tion of naval armaments as low as possible, but will maintain Italy's right to possess naval forces, equal in tonnage to any other Continental Power.

"The Note will, it is said, em- phasise that as Italy wanted to eliminate all armament competition, she has abstained since the Wash

EPIDEMIC IN EAST.

VALUE OF WIRELESS

BROADCASTING."

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BATAVIA, Feb. 18.

LARGE PURCHASE OF SILVER:

"

[PROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,]

CANTON, Feb. 19. For the purpose of coining a large quantity of 10 cent silver coins for circulation in Kwangtung, and particularly for maintaining a suf- ficient reserve fund at the Central Bank, the Director of the Canton Government Mint

ordered 3,000,000 ounces of silver bars from Shanghai.

has

fund and order within ita normal jurisdiction, General Chang also declared that, as the situation is still in the balance, the best the to abstain from supporting either Manchurian Government could do is

Nanking or Shanai.

bitter animosity with Nanking is The most prominent figure whose

well known, is the ex-Marshal Sun. Chuan Fang who is now reported to be reorganizing his remnants in readiness to march within the Great Wall in support of Marshal Yen

Peirang warlords are engaged in Meanwhile a number of deposed extensive anti-Nanking activities both in Mukden and Tientsin.

Marshal Yen Hsi Shan has given

orders for proscription of Nanding civil and military offices at Peping Martial law has also been declared attempt at averting the war should here. It is believed that if the fail, Marshal Yen will shortly issue a declaration of secession from Nanking. The latest situation is extremely grave, but hostilities have not yet broken out.

APPEALS TO YEN. (THROUGH RENTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Feb. 19.

relations. This undertaking is a flagrant violation of the British and Soviet agreement, which was

ment's initiative and request. ' concluded at the British Govern-

or any other Government would be Any representations from British.

regarded by the Soviet public as a hostile act, and would meet with determined and effective resistance on the part of the Soviet Govern- ment.

Devold of Christian Spirit...

LONDON, Feb. 18. to the Tass Agency, has reiterated Metropolitan Sergius, according to foreign correspondents in Mos. Archbishop of Canterbury and other cow that His Holiness the Pope, the Bishops are totally devoid of Chris- tian spirit, and are merely seeking the downfall of the Soviet. "He also asserts that religious persecution in

Russia is non-existent.

considering.

BIG EXPLOSION IN

AMERICA.

HEAVY DEATH ROLL.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK, Feb. 18.

A message from Elizabeth (New Jersey) states that six people wers killed and 83 injured as the result of an explosion and fire in the

alcohol department of the Standard Oil Company's works at Linden.

LATER.

Little Hope for Majority of Injured.

the majority of the injured in the Doctors are of the opinion that Standard Oil explosion have little

hope of recovery.

Eleven hundred men were work- shift when three deafening explosions occurred spreading terror for miles around, Fortunately the mapority were out of the danger zone.

Sergius confirmed the authenticity of his interview with the Sovieting on the night Press on Sunday, and expressed the view that atheists were exaggerat ing their successes, for there were tens of millions of orthodox Church The threatened war in China ap-men in Russia. He added that the pears to be still in the telegram abolition of Sundays, Holy Days stage. Tan Yen Kai, Hu Han Min and other restrictions had not and Wang Chung Hui, the Pres-affected religion." dents of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Yuana, respectively, in replying to telegrams from Yen Hsi Shan, and urge the Shanei General to peacefully co-operate in the unification of the country, and en fore acting." join him to "ponder earefully be-

Reprimand Demanded.

should retire.

NATIONAL COTTON WEEK. TO COMBAT FOREIGN IMPORTS.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

CUSTOMS TRUCE PROPOSED.

BRITISH DELEGATE'S

SUGGESTIONS.

"Russia is conducting a vast ex- periment in co-operation, communal When sharing and social justice. the largest country in the world tries the boldest experiment in his- tory something is going to happen. Russia's aim is social justice but this is sought by ruthless means. Hence, Russia is the land of limit- leas contradictions. Their end is a classless society where there shall be no explotation of man by man, their means the abolition of private pro- perty and the substitution of com- mon ownership. Their motive is not private proft but public ser vice. These are high principles, but unfortunately they are often car- ried by ruthless force and bloodabed. Five times I have visited Russia, twice under the Czars, and three times under the present Govera

ment. With all its short comings Russia is better off to-day than under the Czarı

things in Russia. First, the evil of I saw three evils and three good

a dictatorship that denies liberty and democracy and is often carried out if necessary by tyranny or terrar. This dictatorship must con- trol the government, industry, agri- cuture, education, the press, the movin, the radio,' and even religion. The second evil in Tuasis is ita policy of world revolution by force. This means bitterness and division in every local and national trade

province and nation. union; it means bloodshed in city,

ECONOMIC SECURITY.

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.] NANKING, Feb. 19.

LONDON, Feb. 18, The State Council has received

Rugsy, Feb. 15. telegrams from Chekiang, Kiangsu, ning on May 5 will enable all drap Conference at Geneva, Mr. W. "National cotton week begin- At the International Tariff Truce Kwangtung, Shantung and Hupchery stores throughout the country Graham, the President of the Board party headquarters, urging that Yen comprehensively to display Lan of Trade urged that a truce should dogmatie atheism, which does not

Third, the bigoted attitude of. Isi Shan be reprimanded for his cashire cotton goods in conformity be arranged which would prevent suggestion that Chiang Kai Shrek with the plan launched by the the signatory nations from giving allow full religious liberty. The

bat imported cotton goods, industry for a term of years." Drapers' Chamber of Trade to com- any further protection to any in constitution guarantees liberty of volving closer

conscience but instead I found much manufacturers and retailera.

"This is not a free trade con-" ference," he said, "but its object is political and religious persecution. to free trade from the unnecessary. restrictions imposed on it by unjust customs barriers. The object of a customs truce over a number of which I would gladly acknowledge. years is to make economic security possible during that period, and to rad to the drawing up of treaties for a reduction of customs tariffs to the lowest possible figure.". Proposed Truce On October 1. He proposed that the truce should

It is stated officially that trafic on the Tientsin-Pukow and Peping- Hankow Railways is functioning pormally.

No Signs of War.

PEPING, Feb. 19. Marshal Yen Hai Shan has again

contact between

"UNITED EMPIRE PARTY.”

TO CONTEST SEATS AT

NEXT ELECTION..

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Feb. 18. Lord Rothermere has whole-

The Other Side.. There are also merits in Russia

One is the people's livelihood, the

demand for social justice, the con- cern for the poor, the spirit of shar- ing with the poor on the part of all higher officials who limit themselves

take effect from October 1 next, and shirt and the leading officiula live a to a maximum income of $3.75 gold

last for two years.

a day. The president in his flannel

simple life of sharing with the poor, The world was unsettled and rest Selfish luxury is counted robbery, less because of its economic pro-Squeeze and bribery are ference would encourage the coun- tries which had been proceeding on tariff campaign.

In an opening address at the meeting of the Advisory Council of

telegraphed to Marshal Chiang Kai the Eastern Bureau of the League

Shek and states he has learned, with of Nations for epidemicological in

surprise, that his telegrams to telligence. at Bandoeng, Major

. Over 2,000,000 ounces has already turn led him to start organising a Chiang aroused his anger which in Graham stressed the importance of wireless broadcasting intelligence been shipped to Canton in three punitive expedition. Yen goes on regarding epidemics, and the ques vonsignments The last consignment to say that his telegrams only con- ington Conference from establish- tion of the extension of air ke has been shipped to Hong Kong to cained his personal views which he heartedly joined Lord Beaverbrook ing any long term naval programme, on the diffusion of disease like he transhipped for Canten to-day put forward for Chiang's considerano clean sweep of existing poli- believing that the world has enter cholera and yellow fever. He said The import of this silver is an

tion. If auch views anger the tical parties, and has promised Italy since the Washington Confer- stations required renewed

conto maintain the exchange value of are necessary as he will obey to a ence has contented herself with sideration with a view to speeding the Central Bank notes. building ship sufficient only to up alterations in the conditions.

letter any mandate sent to him taxes, of the United Empire port the policy, including food which Chiang issues.

North China appears quiet. There Party" which proposes to are no signs of war preparations. candidates at by-elections and con- free trade basis to join in the in this area, it appears certain test half of the seats in the country that Shansi does not want to fight at the next General Election. and war will not materialize unless Nanking assumes the offensive. Yen's whole move has the appear. ance of being more against Chiang personally than against Narking...

ed into a period of real limitation. the part played by quarantine attempt by the Canton Government Generalissimo no punitive measures actively and energetically to suPblems.. The breakdown of this con-punishable with death.

cover immediate relative needs.

The Memorandum gives figures to thow that in surface ships outsido those limited by the Washington Conference, Italy possesses, cither on the water or under construc tion, roughly the sime number `as France.

Important Questions Delayed.

·· (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, Feb. 19.

||

ATTEMPT ON HINKLER'S RECORD.

་་

FORCED LANDING BY NEW- ZEALANDERS.

(THROUGH DEUTER'S AGENCY.]

KARACHI, Feb. 19. The two. New Zealand airmen,

CONFUSED KWANGSI

SITUATION.

**LI

BERLIN RAID ON REDS.

" IRONSIDES STRIKING.

...AT LOTING.

According to the vernacular Press,

HOSTILE MOB, DISPERSED. the "Ironsides " in Southern

Ultimatum to Yon. Kwangtung are now striking -

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.] Charging Yen Hai Shan with wards the West River with Takhing already mobilizing troops in pre- The absence of the French delega-

Rs their objective. They have been paration for a campaign against the tion resulted in a virtual suspen Flying Officers Piper and Kay, have moving from Shung to attack Sam Central Government, Chiang Kai

BERLIN, Feb. 18. sion of serious business at the Con-rande a forced landing five miles Inw near Loting. It they can take Shek telegraphed to Yen Esi Shan cluding plans of an extensive future Two lorry loads of documents, in- ference until the French Cabinet is from Jask Aerodrome. They are reformed. At present only informal attempting to break Hinkler's tributary of the West River to at demobilise and inter alia release large force of police which suddenly Loting they will move along a reproving him, and requests him to campaign, comprised the boul of a talks are "proceeding, records of cord from England to Australia.

tack Takhing. Meanwhile the Can Feng Yu Hsiang, he further charges swooped on the Communist head which are being supplied to the

ton Higher Command has sent rein. Yen's agents at Peking with censor quarters and ransacked the premises French Government.

forcements to Loting and Sailaw.

A Canton military official told ing telegrams from the Govern- for several hours to discover the ment's representative. He says the origin of seditious leaflets circulat- Pressmen that very little anxiety anti-Government manifesto which rd among the police force. Several is. felt by the Canton authorities was issued by the Kuominchan for hundred unemployed persons staged regarding the new move by the a revolt last year emanated from a hostile demonstration outside dur enemy.. The Ironsides would Taiyuanfu. The telegram which is ing the search and were driven off probably abandon their attack upon strongly worded is generally re- with police batons. Loting in view of the successes of the Cantencap troops in Southern Erded as an ultimatum to Yen. Kwangsi, which will have the effect

BRITISH MILLERS AND CANADIAN WHEAT.

SATISFACTORY DISCUSSIONS.

ĮBRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RrGay, Feb. 19.

AIR RACE FOR KING'S

CUP.

BRITISH WIXELESS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, Feb. 19, The Royal Aero Club announces that the race for the King's Cup

on Saturday, June 8, will be confin-of leaving the "Ironside" rear

d to one day only, and the course The Lord Privy Seal held a meet-will be approximately seven bun ing yesterday between representa dred and fifty miles. tives of the Canadian wheat Asso ciation and the Association of Millers of Great Britain to con tinue the discussion.on the develop. ment of "wheat shipments from Canada, which would facilitate the shipment of coal and other products from the United Kingdom.

The National Association indicat ed its readiness to decrease taxation which enabled them to use a higher on purchases of Canadian wheat proportion of homegrown wheat. Representatives of the pool ex pressed satisfaction with the de claration of the Association that

RUBBER RESTRICTION.

NO PRODUCTION DURING MAY.

ROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 19.

open to attack if they advance on Lating. A telegram from Loting, however, confirms the report that the "Ironsides." are striking from Shunyi at Loting.

The Nanking contingent which re- treated to Waichap are now pre- paring to recapture Hohsien, and Pinglok, The situation on the Kwei River is quiet.

WAY OF REFORMERS IS HARD.

CANTON'S MODERNISER OF MANNERS GIVES UP.

#

CONFERENCE ON WARSHIP.

TWO KINGS TO MEET..

[THROTON REDSER'S AGENCY.]

BAGDAD, Feb. 18.

A British warship lying in the Dr. Wu Pak Leung, the Head of Persian Gulf will be the venue of the Canton Bureau of Social Re an important conference a few days form, has tendered his resignation hence between two kings-Ibn Saud saying that he would like to give of Hedjaz and Faisal of Iraq. Their up his post to some one more com-respective peoples have long been at petent, and that he wants to go loggerheads regarding the Iraq- abroad to study. The request wae Nejd frontier, where raiding hos not granted by Mayor Lin Wan been frequent, but the delicate point Koi, but Dr. Wu has definitely de- cided to resign.

Canning and Unreliable. Lui Woon Im has been ousted by the Kwangsi leaders who issued a A meeting of Dutch, French, declaration denouncing him as trim Belgian, Swiss and German rubber ming, cunning and unreliable. Lui producers was held to discuss a who has practically no troops fol- means of carrying out the decisions lowing him, is now in Wuchow. He of the Anglo-Dulch rubber grower's has been instructed by General British millers wanted to use committee. It adopted almost un- Chen Teal Tong to collect his Canadian wheat, and that at a suit. animously the proposal to stop pro- former troops, most of whom have at social reformation and this has able price they would willingly induction of rubber completely dur-been "bought over "· crease their purchases of it. ing the month May.

Kwangsi faction.

It is understood that conservative people in Canton have been bitterly against Dr. Wa's, drastic "attempts by these greatly discouraged him that he

has chucked up the sponge.

was to find a pises where the two monarchs could meet and discuss the problem, at the same time each safe guarding his amour propre.

Sir Francis Humphreys (of Kabul fame) will accompany King Faisal in a special train from Bagdad to the ship, fying the white ensign.

As soon as the truce had come into effect a second conference should be held to devise the actual tariff reductions. He suggested the immediate formation of a special committee to draw up a list of the reductions.

Britain and twenty-five other European countries are participat ing in the conference. Japan is also represented. The Government do not feel they could at this time of the United States have stated they

ence, but have sent an observer. The usefully participate in the confer Governments of Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and Boath Africa are not participating.

QUEEN AT INDUSTRIES

FAIR.

NATIONAL MARK SCHEME APPROVED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Feb. 18. Her Majesty the Queen, accom panied by the Duke of York and Princess Mary, paid a visit to-day to the British Industries Fair at Olympia. Her Majesty made pur chases at over one hundred stalls. and expressed her appreciation of the cleverness of design and work- manship of many of the exhibits. Agriculture, she spent a long time At the stand of the Ministry of examining market produce sold un- der the National Mark Scheme. She expressed the opinion that the Government were performing a real service to the public by the scheme, as housewives had a guarantee that they were buying home produced goods. The scheme was also a real help to agriculture.

Second, there was an absence of race and colour prejudice. It maker no" difference whether the man "is white of black, whether a worker is a man or a woman, there is equal pay for equal work.

"Thus Russia is a strange mixture of good and evil. It is at once warning and a challenge; a warn ing against all corruption or sloth, or social injustice in other coun- tries. Wherever imperialism, capit aliam or militarism Lre ruthless," there Russia challenges us to put our house in order."

Protests from America, (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK, Feb. 18. ligious denominations are support Lutherans, Jews, and other re-

ing the campaign of protest against religious persecution in Russia inaugurated by Bishop Manning, the protestant bishop of New York diocese, who is announcing special prayers of interecssion in the cathe- dral on March 16.

Mr. Arthur Brown, president of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions has issued a circular, ad- vising the non-recognition of Russia until these persecutions case...........

New Yonk, Feb. 18. The State Assembly has put for ward a resolution of sympathy with the Christians in Russia "in their terrible hours, of agony,"

THE BYRD EXPEDITION. RELIEF SHIP IN TOUCH

(BLUTED'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, Feb. 19. The City of New York has wire- lessed that the is in sight of the Bay of Wales where Byrd and his forty-two companions are camped in an ice-belt, and expects to take

them off this afternoon,