NAVAL CONFERENCE
MOMENTOUS WEEK END
CONVERSATIONS,
M. TARDIEU CONFIDENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 18- Momentous conversations between the British and French delegations, upon which the fate of the Naval Conference is considered to depend, in view of France's refusal to re- duce her naval demands except in return for another security pact, were held at Chequers to-day, and
sted four hours.
French Communique. A French communique on the meeting merely says that the delo- gations "endeavoured to find a suit! able means of ensuring the success. of the negotiations." M. Tardien and M. Briand, however, returned to Landen... smiling.
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M. Tardieu, in a statement de clared: I am convinced that we shall come to satisfactory re- sult," and remarked: "We con- sider the results to be obtained important enough to exclude any unwise haste." He announced that he was leaving for Paris.
A More Hopeful Feeling.
LONDON, March 17.
On his departure for Paris; after conferring with Mr. Ramsay Mac-
NEW THREAT
GANDHI.
BY
** BLOOD IS „REQUIRED.”
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930.
UNIVERSITY TRAINING FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
{THROUGH EXCTEE'S AGENCY.}
AHMEDABAD, March 16.
to enlist as rolunteers.
MANILA RIOTS.
- GANGSTERS ATTACK U.S.'
SAILORS,
FURTHER FILIPINO
'AGITATION.
THROUGH NEUTËR: « AGENCY.]
MANILA, March 16.
Two serious riots broke out in Maalla to-day. The arst occurred
orator,
JAPAN AND CHINA'S TARIFFS.
TEMPORARY AGREEMMENT
REACHED.
RELINQUISHMENT OF SPECIAL DUTIES.
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, March 17.
A semi-official communique re-
IN THE NORTH.
BIG SHANSI TROOP MOVEMENTS,
MANCHURIA BACKS NANKING.
(Wah Tas Tat Pao.)
KWANGSI CAMPAIGN
ANOTHER CANTONESE
• OFFENSIVE,
[FROM OUR OWN CORLESPONDENT.").
OR
AMERICAN SHIPS UNDER FIRE.
MORE TROUBLE ON UPPER YANGTSZE.
OFFICER WOUNDED,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEPING, March 17.
Chinese soldiers got completely
CANTON, March 17, Colonel Chen Chang Po, the newly-appointed Chief Director of PEPING, March 11. the punitive expedition to South- There are on the Tientaia-Pukowem Kwangtung, left here for Ko
ed by Mahatma Gandhi in his in a game of Sunday baseball, were Sino-Japanese tariff agreement is
The Nationalist University, found-when 30 American sailors, indulging garding the formal signing of the Railway line four divisions of the chow yesterday, together with out of hand on the Upper Yangtsze Sharsi troops and five divisions on several detachments of soldiers three days ago. They heavily fired
two American steamers, "Non-Co-operation " closed down to enable the students speech in Tagalog by a Filipino marking the final attainment of
days, has attacked by 50 gangsters after a expected to be announced shortly, the Peping Hankow Railway. The and a number of gunboats, includ
total number of the Shansi troops ing the Hai Fu, Pei On and Kwang which there were American guarda
Kin. Aeroplanes will be sent later. fer protection purposes,
48 miles one of the major diplomatic aims exceeds. 120,000.
The Kuominchun forces are mass- "This expedition is a part of
above Ichang of the National Government,,
The agreement marks a definiteed at Loyang in Honan.. Troops General Chen Tani Tong's scheine recognition by Japan of China under Han Fu Chu and Shih Tu to crush the Kwangsi. Ironside" complete tariff autonomy and Le San are quartered along the Lung- coalition. The insurgents have been driven from Pakhoi, but they enforcement in Dairen of whai Railway. tariff schedule, where hitherto the
still occupy Limehow, Lingshan and other commercial centres, old rates have been collected, also Japan's relinquishment of special
Communists Capture Langehow, frontier duties (which were one-
police station, when two sailors Customs duties).
The second riot occurred near the third lower than the Maritime As a temporary measure the who were reported to be chasing
transition agreement is.. accom- two Filipinos were attacked by a panied by an arrangement of assist in the anti-Nanking cam- moh. The police managed to pre limited scope for a limited period vent a general riot, and three Bili-providing that on a few articles of pince were put in gaol at Navalers, but were released after being ques- tioned.
It has been decided to re-open with a new curriculum, namely, an intensive course of training for students and teachers in the prin- ciples and methods of civil dis- obedience.
Day of Ellence. Gandhi has arrived at the village of Boriavi, and announced that from to-morrow his party will rest
on Mondays, which he will person ally observe as a "day of silence," during which, there will be до speaking the whole day long
It is understood that a civil dis- obedience campaign will be launch ed in different provinces whes Gandhi gives the order or gets arrested.
British Injustice. ANAND, Bombay Province,
March 16. Gandhi is camping here to-night and to-morrow.
Addressing villagers at Boriavi, Gandhi said:-Money alone will not win the Swaraj."
If money could win the Swaraj I would have secured it long ago. What is re quired, therefore is your blood."
He admitted that the Swaraj was unobtainable by volunteers disobey-
Donald and Mr. Stimson separate- ly. M. Tardieu left behind a mare Lopefull feeling in conference cir cles though up to now the Franco-ing the alt tax. He wanted there- Italian dendiock has not relaxed.
It is understood that the "confer- ence is considering a scheine where by France will consent to keep a limited specified number of ships in the Mediterranean, while Britain, through her command of the Straits "of Gibraltar' should act na guaran-
tor.
PRAYERS FOR RUSSIAN
CHRISTIANS....
SERVICES INTERRUPTED IN BRITAIN.
[TEROCH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, March 18.
by to draw the attention of India and the world to the other injustices on which British Imperialism was hased.
DRAMATIC END OF SPANISH DICTATOR..
SUDDEN DEATH IN HOTEL.
(THROUGA REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS. March 18.- General Primo de Rivera's death
MADRID, March 18.
was dramatic. He had been suffer ing from diabetes, and expired from heart failure in the room of his hotel, while his son and daugh- ters were attending Mass The Intercession for persecuted Chris-budy is being embalmed för trans- timas in Russia was made in chur-port to Madrid. ches and chapels throughout Eng- Effect on Political Situation. land and Wales to day, except in Roman Catholic churches, (Wednes- day having been fixed for interces- sory prayers in the Roman Catho lic Church), and parade services (in view of the Government's ban),
Interruptions, on the ground that the services were tantamount to occurred anti-Soviet propaganda, in some churches and chapels,
At a meeting in London of the Jewish Board of Deputies, a re- presentative body of British Jewry passed a resolution deploring the anti-religious policy of the Soviet, which was threatening Russian Judaism with extinction."
Anti-God Carnival.
RIGA, March 18.
A special two-months' anti-Eas ter campaign began throughout Soviet Russia yesterday, and in: cludes the usual anti-religious plays, carnivals, buffoonery prize competitions. excursions and lec tures to members of the anti-God' Society,
"Red ** Demonstration in Now York.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.]
NEW YORK, March 17,
armed with While policemen batons and revolvers guarded them against possible anarchist attacks, thousands of Christinna and Jews joined in prayers on behalf of their persecuted co-religionists in Russia yesterday.
Seven sailors were injured, one seriously, while a Filipino police- man was clubbed by gangsteri."
Chief Machinist Mate Edward Mecklenburg, of U.S.S. Parrott, WAA sent to hospital with three broken riba..
Extra police guards are patrol ling the waterfront and have been instructed to ensure safe conducte to sailors returning to their ships. The naval authorities have instruct ed the sailors to avoid trouble. Severe punishment is threatened to any who attack Filipinos.
MINERS AND COAL BILL.
DRASTIC ACTION
THREATENED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 16.
Chinese exports Japan agrees to reduce duties, while China agress to maintain the present rates or at least not to increase them be- yond a certain point on certain imports."
sidered the only practicable means This temporary measure is con-
for relations on the basis of China's regularising Sino-Japanese complete tariff autonomy, and does not mark any departure from the general policy of not negotiating agreements embodying mutual tariff concessions.
A FILM COMEDY IN BOSTON.
Yea Hoi Shan has supplied the Kuominchun with large quantities of ammunition and foodstuffs. He has dispatched a delegate to Muk- den to ask Chang Hauch 'Liang to
paiga.
A Mukden report says that it was decided at a recent military conference that the Three Eastern Provinces. (Manchuria) will remisla, loyal to the Central Government."
CHIANG NOT TO "ATTACK TIENTSIN,
SHANSI DRIVE ON RAILWAYS.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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NANKING, March 17. This morning Chiang Kai Shek declared that Yen Hsi Shan and Eeng Yu Hsiang are preparing to launch a joint "drive against the Government along the Peping
A further threat of drastic action JANITORS AS CANNIBALS IN Hankow and Tientsin Pukow Rail
by the coal miners in view of the threatened defeat of the Coal Bill in Parliament this week, was made by Mr. A. J. Cook, who says that miners throughout the coalfields are Rending him strong resolutions and messages demanding a national conference and national action by the Miners' Federation.
AFRICAN FILM, ·
•
[UNITED PRESS.]
Boston, March 9-Boston rocked with laughter to-day at its latest the world of the sensation in drama.
Tremont Temple for weeks has
ed. "Aiko, been showing a motion picture call
billed as having been filmed in the African jungle by the intrepid world traveller and ex- necessary. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, on Wednes-plorer Daniel Davenport, who has day, review
to
brought back with him a group of position defeated ezanibals.
miners' Parliamentary representa Officials of the Federation and tives will meet Mr. William Grå ham and, if
OF
the
to
And if the Bill is
the Government unable satisfy miners and "officials, the Executive Federation will be sum
The death of General Prime de Rivera enormously simplifies the political situation, but is regard-best course of action. ed as a blow to the Republican case against the King, as the strongest plank in the Republican platform so far has been the supposed com- plicity of King Alfonso in the coup d'etat of 1923, which made the deceased Dictator. It was propos el to challenge upon that when the time came.
moned to consider the convening of
a national conference to decide the
It is believed that General de Rivera was very embittered over the King's curt dismissal after seven years' service and the popu
ar rejoicing at his downfall.
HATRY CASE SEQUEL. GIALDINI'S ARREST
UNEXPECTED.
...
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
ROME, March 18. Gialdini and his lawyers are com. pletely surprised at his arrent, which is the sequel to a statement by the British Embassy in Rome secretly handed over to the Italian Foreign Ministry, showing the part which was played by Gialdini in the Hatry affair.
A great assembly was led by ** GENERAL STRIKE IN CASE
Bishop Manning in the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine, and simul-
taneously 12,000 "Reds" gathered
OF WAR."..
in the great drill shed at the Bronx MR. BEN TURNER'S, VIEW OF
Museum and, in a counter-derpon- stration, ridiculed all shades of religion.
.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.
COMMANDS CHANGE HANDS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
LONDON, March 16. The Admiralty announces that Adiniral Sir Michael Hodges, Se- cend Sea Lord, has been appoint
THE 1920 CRISIS.
PETROL SLUMP IN PENANG.
PRICES LOWEST IN HISTORY
OF MALAYA.
To-day one Firpo Jatke, who had his here grimaces as one of these thrilled the movie-going public with supposed cannibals," obtained nu at tachment upon the box-office receipts
of 0.8700 due him as wages.
He ainultaneously made com- plaint, charging that the film was produced in the Bronx, New York, and asserting that Dr. Davenport had never been in Africa. Accord ing to Firpo Jacks, all the alleged cannibals were formerly janitors in- Harlem."
These charges were supported by the cannibals' landlady, who in- dicated that her guests never show ed indications of departing from a standard American diet and who added:-
Penang, March 10.The petrol war has evidently reached Perang as there has been a decided drop in the price during the last few days. Still the price charged in Penang is higher than that charg. ed in certain parts of the F.M.§. "They are perfect gentlemen, From inquiries made in would and they go to church every Sun Appear that the present great fall day! in prices is not only due to the
Dr. Davenport, filing an answer competition which has always existe to the charges, declared that Jacko ed but also to the excessive stocks was employed temporarily to re- sitk" and authentic can- held by all the dealers throughout place
the country. The present prices nibal. He asserted the film to be are said to be unremunerative with genuine." consequent loss to the petrol
magnatça,
The present prices are said to be the lowest ever touched in Malayn. One conversant with the subject, interviewed, said that the present prices are due to over production with which consumption has been unable to keep pace, with the re- sult that large stocks had accu- mulated.
and
MAN-EATER KILLED.
HUMAN FOOT FOUND INSIDE A TIGER.
Patna. The well-known Chendipada "Another general strike would feared
map-cating has
killed only be justified in ease of war"-tiger-which
many this is the opinion of Mr. Ben human beings and established a Turner. M.P. secretary of the reign of terror" in the Fenda Mines Department, who records history States bordering Angul, and views and his romantic career in in Angul itself, has been shot by frank and entertaining book, Mr. Wright-Neville, Superinten- About Myself." which was pub dent of Police. lished last month.
Mr. Wright-Neville was waiting for it at 7 o'clock in the morning near its last human kill. Man cating tigers do not often return to a kill, but this one did and was dispatched with a tingle shot.
When the huge beast was opened, My reply was that if war WAB T gruesome sight horrified the
He writes of the events of the 1020 strike, and adds:-
remember one gentlemanly employer putting the point to me ed Commander-in-Chief of the At us to whether there would be an- lantic Flect in succession to Vice other general strike." Admiral Sir Ernls Chatfield, who
is appointed Commander-in-Chief called by any Government in our spectators, for it contained a whole
of the Mediterranean Fleet in suc- land the workpeople would be justi-haman foot. It also hore on its cession to Admiral Sir Frederick fied in baving a general strike. Field.
head a deep gash, inflicted by the "That, I think, in the only time axe of its latest victim...
The villagers showed their grati- Vice Admiral Bir Cyril Fuller I would ever encourage another. will be Lord. Commissioner of the and even that event could be avoid tude by almost smothering Mr. Admiralty and Chief of Naval Per- led by sensible votes at the ballot-Wright Neville in garlands." sonnel in succession to Sir Michael box.
When he was nine and a half Hodges.
Vice Admiral V. H. Haggard years old, Mr. Turner began work will be Commander-in-Chief at as a weaver, helping at a band American and West Indies stations, loom. He earned, for his first full in succession to Vice Admiral Bir day, 11d. for his mother, id. for
himself, and a ten-cake. Cyril Fuller
This officer was asked, about three years ago, to try to kill off the man-cating tigers and panthers in the Puri-district, and has now killed four man-eating panthers, besides five other tigers and 30 other panthera-Straits Times:
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MAN-EATING PANTHER
་་
KILLED.
INDIAN ARMY OFFICER'S NIGHT ADVENTURE.
Lieutenant Sidney Goodchild, formerly an architect in Holyhead, has killed a man-eating panther that was intesting the Indian vil Jages of Mul Puthari and Sinde- wish.
The Indian Government, having learned that the panther had killed several persons, mostly children,
дув.
PEPING, March 17. Communist forces recently cap- tured Lungchow in South Kwangsi. The town is still in the hands of the Communists, and anxiety i felt for the safety of twenty Chinese giris in a mission orphanage.
ART EXHIBITION TO CLOSE.
[BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE]
LONDON, March 18. The Italian Art Exhibition, which, since it opened at Burlington House in January, has been visited by upwards of 400,000 people, will close on Thursday, and prepaza tions are already being made for the return to Italy of 700 of the. world's masterpieces which have been leat for exhibition by public galleries and private collectors
The liner Leonardo da Vinvi, in which the pictures were brought to London, is due to leave en ber return journey about the first week in April, with cargo valued at over. £10,000,000.
Chiang Kai Shek has denied the rumours that the Government is concentrating troops at Tehchow preparatory to an attack on Tien- tain and Peping. He announced that when the rebels attack the WALTER SCOTT. LETTERS. Government troops, he would with- draw and remain on the defensive to prove that the Government doea not want war, but desires pence. MORE AEROPLANES FROM AMERICA.
(Wa Taz Fat Pao.)
SHASOHAI, March 17. Four more aeroplanes, purchased by the Aviation Department, have arrived here from America, and will be taken to Nanking soo5. SOVIET SOLDIERS IN MANCHULI,
REFUSE TO LEAVE. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Tokyo, March 17.
A message from Harbin states that a squad of 20 Soviet soldiers who invaded Manchuli on the 13th refuse to leave the border town on the pretext of guarding the C.E.R. local organisations.
The Chinese authoritica have protested to the Soviet Consul and have instructed the border guards to drive away the Soviet invaders. NEW JAPANESE MINISTER ?
(Fal Tz Fat Pao,)
SHANGHAI, March 17. According to
message from Tokyo, the Japanese Government has decided to appoint the present Japanese Minister to the Nether lands as the Japanese, Minister to China, in view of the opposition of the Chinese, Government to the appointment of Mr. Obata,
MARSHAL LI TSAI HSIN.
CHEN MING SHU PETITIONS
GIFT TO EDINBURGH
LIBRARY....
The Chiping was Assailed furiously that it was hit over 300 times. The U.S. guard returned the fire with rifles and machine guns, and a number of Chinese soldiers were observed to fall,
The casualties were :-Lieutenant C. M. Winslow and Ave Chineso wounded aboard the Chiping.
The Iling was similarly attacked, and one Chinese aboard was killed,"
INCOME TAX FOR CEYLON?
THE ONE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION.
· NATIVE ENTHUSIASM
ABATING. "
Colombo, March 1st.-In clubs and offices, and
in newspaper editorials, nothing is a widely dis cussed as the income tax proposals, the draft Bill embodying which was read yesterday for the first time in the Legislative Council. While the Times of Ceylon has, from the beginnings, made
1 firm stand against what it considers to be an unfair and ill-advised imposition, the morning papers, from being the measure, ardently in favour
the
have veered round almost to opposite opinion. There was, at one time, an idea abroad that only the Europeans would suffer from the tax, but when it was pointed out that 14,000 out of thể 20,000 future taxpayers would be Ceylon- ese, and when it became clear that the prospect of evading the tax was remote, on account of the "squeeze" principle of income tax assessments, popular opinion speedily executed a volte-face.
The private letter-books of Sir Walter Scott, which contain 6,000 letters from the foremost men and women of his time, are to be left European Councillor's Views. to the nation by Mr. Hugh Wal-Mr. T. L. Villiers, the European pole. the novelist. They are to be
Urban member in the Legislative housed in the Advocates Library, Council, addressed a large gather-
ing of his constituente and charac Edinburgh.
This gift, which is the most interised Mr. Huxham as an expert teresting and important literary income tax collector and not an bequest Scotland has received for expert in the principles of taxp tion. He opposed income tax on the grounds that it would cripple industry, prove a set-back to land development and house-building. and that the revenue which it would provide would be a constant source of temptation to the local govern- ments, spoon-fed by state revenue, to spend extravagantly.
romance of
many years, recalls a the sale room.
The letter-books, thirty-two in number, are those in which Sir Walter Scott hound all the most interesting letters he receivel over a period of nearly thirty venrs, They cluded the eyes of Scott's biographers, and were kept at Ab- botsford for many years until just after the war, when they found their way into a London sale room.
M
In London Sale-room. Mr. Hugh Walpole, who is an ardent collector of Scott first edi tions and Imanuscripts, happened to be present, but had faint hopes of securing such a prize, for it seered certain that documents of such interest would go to American millionaire. The bid- ding started at a remarkable low figure, and Mr. Walpole realised that, luckily for him," the Ameri- can buyers were not present."
He immediately stepped in and secured the Scott letter-books at a price probably twenty or thirty imes below their present value, which is said to be about £20,000.
SHAMROCK V.'S SKIPPER.
:
Mr. Villiers, closed his speech by saying that he opposed the tax be cause it would be detrimental to the Ceylonese. "His concluding sea- tance was made the subject of an ungrateful and sarcastic leader in n Ceylonese morning paper, which accused him of sheltering behind the Ceylonese to further his own community's ends.
An Inaudible Speech.
In proposing the First Reading of the Bill yesterday, Mr. Huxham spoke for over three hours, but wa so inaudible that the official short- hand writers, and the Press, were obliged to rely on him to supply first a summary and then a full version of his speech.
Mr. Huxham claimed that his scheme was simple and workable, but acknowledged that he had made mistakes in presenting his subject, and that the standard rate of 10 per cent. was a great obstacle in the way of the acceptance of the "FIRST MATE ON LAST
measure. Actually, however, only CHALLENGER.
25 per cent of the total number FOR HIS .RELEASE.
liable to pay tax would be asked Tollesbury is a little fishing and to pay over two per cent. The General Chen Ming Shu bas
at the
present Government recognised that offered a reward of five hundred again telegraphed to Chiang Kai yachting village in Essex rupees, and Lieutenant Goodchild, Shek asking him to release i Tsai mouth of the Blackwater, and here there was an element of double taxation in an income tax side by who is attached to the 4-16th Pun-Hsin and allow him to "investigate doings will presently be watched by was born and lives a man whose
side with export duties and intend- jab Regiment, and was on leave, industrial conditions in foreign all who love the sea. He is Capt.
ed to recommend a reduction of the organised a big game-hunting - countries."
No reply has been
latter. They could rot, however, received.
in view of the impending change pedition. Two days before his cave ended he heard that a boy
in the constitution, bind the fo- had been killed. He hurried to the
ture Government. The Second district and, rigging up a but above THE GERMANY-CHINA AIR September will see if there is any
Reading of the Bill will take place the ground, waited until about two
on April 29... o'clock in the morning, when he saw the beast approach. Using his torch to take aim, he fired. The
recoil from his rifle knocked the torch out of his hand, and the beast leaped at him, dislodging the wooden pole supporting the hut. Lieutenant Goodchild was almost thrown to the ground, but managed to eling to a branch with one hand, while with the other he whipped out his revolver and fired two shots. There was no further movement on the part of the panther, and the officer, not knowing whether the shots had taken effect, decided to remain aloft. until daylight, when he found the animal lying a short distance away dead.
Lieutenant Goodchild has receiv ed the reward and the thanks of the Government for bis bravery
ROUTE.
SOVIET REFUSES RIGHT-OF-
WAY."
Ned Heard, and there is no better man in handling a yacht on the English side of the Atlantic. Next more skilful on the other side also. It is he who will skipper the Shamrock V. which Mr. C. Nichol- son has designed, and is now.com- pleting at Gosport, for the series of races off Newport, U.S.A for the Amerien Cup, which the in- domitable Sir Thomas Lipton will once again try to capture for Eng. land.
His Record.."
This is the first time I have been in charge of the chailenger," he added, modestly, but I have been in charge of racing yachts
before."
(THROVOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow; March 17. With regard to the Sino-German
In the four seasons from 1924 ta 1927. as skipper of Mr. F, G. Mit- "I was racing at eighteen in the chell's Noreses, he won 116 prizes air traffic agreement, it is semi- officially stated that the Soviet
"At twenty-in 137 races, and in the two years Government has not granted sanc Creole." he said,
three I sailed as A.B. in Sir Thomas 1928 and 1922 in the Astra he had tion for such a service vid Siberia.
[The recent Sino-Gorman air Lipton's Shamrock III that was captured-six-prizes-out-of-eight- traffic agreement provides for the in 1903. In 1914 I went in Sham- events.
Captain Heard, however, is à foundation of a Bino-German com rock IV. 8 first mate, but no race
In 1020 reserved man. He understands his pany to establish & postal service came off owing to the war. between Germany and China, and was again first mate under Sir responsibilities. I will do my "This is later a passenger service. The William Burton. We won two out hest," he said quietly, company will have a capital of of the five test races and lost the the fourth time I shall have been £300,000, of which the Lufthansa three others.
across, and if I do not get it now · will contribute a third.]
(Continued at foot of next column). it will be bad luck!
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