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A PACT WITHIN A PACT.
LATEST PROPOSAL AT NAVAL CONFERENCE.
BRITISH RADIO DEVELOPMENT.
OVERSEAS WIRELESS
TELEPHONY,
ATTEMPT TO FIND MIDDLE DISCUSSION, IN COMMONS.
COURSE.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICZ.)'
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1930.
"ANTI-PIRACY GUARDS.
REGULARS TO REMAIN,
SHIPPING COMPANIES TO BEAR COST.
(THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENTE.]
LONDON, March 27,
KUGBY, March" 26.
M. Briand visited Mr. "Henderson
In the House of Commons to-
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.]
LONDON, March 26. The result of the Government's
that he expounded the French, ideative), drew attention to the deci.al of Anti-Piracy guarda was an
REDS IN MANILA.
THE CHINA CRISIS. PINGNAM CAPTURED
GOVERNMENT'S STRONG ALTION.
-CONTACT WITH THIRD
INTERNATIONALE. "
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(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCT.]
MANILA, March 27, The Government has taken its first action against the Communists
GOVERNMENT'S STATEMENT.
LEGATIONS SAFELY
GUARDED.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, March 20. In the House of Commons at question time, Mr. Arthur Hender- son stated that he had learnt from
had become worse. The outbreak imminent. He had also seen re ports that Yen Hai Shan, the anti- Government leader, had seized the Peping-Hankow Railway Admini-
CANTONESE TAKE OFFENSIVE.
GOOD WORK BY AIR FORCE.
[FROM OUR OWN (CORRESPONDENT,]
IN THE NORTH.
FENG MAKES A MOVE...
NANKING TROOPS WELL
...... ENTRENCHED,
{THROUGH REGTER'S AGENCY.]
PEPING, March 27.
Chen Kung Po, a prominent sup- porter of "Wang "Ching Wei, and
this morning, when it is understood day Sir Hilton Young (Conserva decision to reconsider the withdraw. through the Bureau of Posts, which Peping that the outlook in China have been formally launched yes- other members of the Second Plan
of a mutual guarantee pact in the Mediterranean as most likely to lead to a reduction in the French and other navica."
sion of the Government to develop nounced in the House of Commons effect that the use of the mails will of civil war was again regarded as advices received from the front rearganisationists, arrived to-day
overseas wireless telephony through the Post Ofco Station at Rugby without the co-operation of the
Communications Company. He re
at question time by Mr. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
Mr. Alexender said that the Gov. ernment had informed the shipping
companies that they were prepared
has issued an announcement to the
be denied to the Proletarian Labour Congress, which is alleged to be | connected with the Moscow Sovieta
The order extends also to twenty
stration.
Big Austen Chamberlain asked
CANTON, March 27. The offensive of the pro-Nanking forces in Kwangsi is reported to
terday, and the latest telegraphic ary Council, who are regarded as
state that Pingnam, a strategic from Tiéntain, where they had a point on the upper parts of the conference with Yer Hai Shan's West River above Wuchow and representatives. After & further leading to Sunchow and Nanning, conference here they are going on has been captured. The city is now
to Taiyuanfu this evening.
It is authoritatively stated that the attitude of both the British called that this great Pacifio utility to sanction further extension of whose personal mail will not be de-'I whether the legations were ad-occupied by Nanking troops under i
and Americans is unchanged, "and the present task of the Conference is to find a formula which will re- present a middle course between a purely consultative pact and one containing military, guarantees,
Discussions are now proceeding
corporation was formed in order to co-ordinate and rationalise the
cable and wireless systems of over- seas communications.
Mr. Lees Smith, Postmaster Gen-
the provision of regular military definito and naval guards for a limited period subject to the fol lowing conditions,
Tas Conditions.
First, the companies shall be eral, eplying, said that the Gov-fore April 1, agree to an elabora on the basis of arranging a..paet ernment's decision had not been tion of the present scheme for the
within a pact, one purely concerned with the Mediterranean, signed by Britain, France and Italy, and the other larger and more general, to which the five Powers will sub
scribe.
"France Loads the Way."
PARIS, March 26. In the matter of land disarms ment France lends the world. This statement WADK made by the Premier in a debate in the Senate on the army estimates. Another öfuial spokesman asserted that the French military effectives were 44 per cent. below those before the war, though the estimates had in- creased owing to the general rike in prices and the extra expendi- ture due to the reduction of the military service period.
M. Briand's Ratum.
Rugay, March 24.
The French Foreign Minister, M. Briand, arrived in London to-night to resume work in connection with the London Naval Conference. He was met by the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Arthur
Henderson.
The Prime Minister will preside over a meeting of the delegations
reached on the grounds of any political doctrine, but in considera- tion of national interests.
supply of Indian guards for the internal protection of shipping.
Second, any guard from the re-
suspected Communist agitators livered. It will, it is stated,be confiscated and consigned to the Dend Letter Office.
equately guarded.
Mr. Henderson said he had-no reason to doubt their safety, and pointed out that Great Britain was splendidly represented in China and Sir Miles Lampson had kept him well informed.
Backed By Russia. The twenty men concerned. arë
Sir Kingsley Wood questioned the threatening to take action through wisdom at present of relaxing the the courts to regain their privileges.extraterritorial rights.
All of them are under close po- lice surveillance.
Several letters have already been confiscated by the postal author The position when he came into gular forces provided after Karchities, and it is alleged that their office was that there were two s1-31, 1930, is to be paid for by the contents show direct connection
companies in full ternatives. The first was to use. Third, the whole cost of the with the Third Internationale. beam stations. Their advantages were that they had the equipment and, therefore, it seemed obvious that by combining telegraphy and telephony in one set of apparatus economical results could be achiev ed. The other alternative was that at Rugby he found a great wireless service already in existence the greatest commercial overseas tele. phonie service in the world.
Rugby System.
elaborated scheme, including the maintaining of the guard when not actually on board ship, should be borne by the companies in propor, tion to their requirements.
Companies, stated Mr. Alexander, met on Monday last to consider the position and he was still awaiting their reply..
The
All the Terms Reasonable? Sir Basil Peto (Con. Barnstaple) asked whether it was reasonable to The Rugby system gave great throw on to the shipping com- economies in landlines. In order panies the whole cost of the pro- to operate a wireless system they tection of the ships, crews and off- must have a system of landliness, and to withdraw the facili from the central trunk exchange in London to the wireless station. Those landlines were very expen- sive and, by concentrating their services on one site, they saved con- siderable money.
ties given in the past by Govern
ment.'
Commander Kenworthy remark ed: This is a new principle that naval guards should be paid for.
Mr. Alexander said he had noth-
Comparing the use of the Rugbying to add.
system with the best offer made by the Communication Company, there £30,000. The Post-master General would be a saving of £20,000 to
added that the Government had re- cently heard from the Canadian Government that they preferred a direct service with this country to
service via New York, and this would be provided. The Govern- which has been called for to-morrow afternoon and, in view of the dement were also willing to open a volopments which have decurred since the beginning of last week, when the principal members of the French delegation left for Paris much importance is attached to the meeting.
Mr. H. L. Stimson; the head of the American delegation, had a further long conversation with Mr. MacDonald at the House of Com. mons this afternoon.
Japanese Reply.
Toxyo, March 26, A special Cabinet meeting which was expected to-day for the purpose of deciding a reply to the Japanese American agreement has been called off as domestic and political ob stacles have arisen necessitating further delay.
The naval "general staff are re- ported to be strongly opposing ac ceptance, for which a reply is un- likely to be ready before next week.
EGYPTIAN PREMIER IN LONDON,
TO DISCUSS BRITISH- EGYPIAN TREATY.
(BRITISH WIRELIES SERVICZ)
RUGBY, March 28.'
service with, the Argentine as soon As the House gave authority, and negotiations with the Egyptian Government were making satisfac- tory progreRS,"
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WOMAN MUTILATED. CHINESE SENTENCED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER.
PENANG, March 18.
At the Sungei Patasi High Court
Mr. Henderson replied that he did not think the two points were entirely associated.
"Capt. Eden (Cons) asked whether the negotiations would be suspend ed during the disturbed conditions. Mr. Henderson replied "I cannot say that they will be actually suspended I have to leave the mat ter for the time being in the hands of our representatives."
It is also definitely known that the Soviet agents in Russia have been sending money to a certain member of the Philippines Legisla ture to cover the cost of the dis FIRST BRITISH AIR YACHT. tribution of propaganda.
Government Watching Situation. The Governor General, Mr. Daris, is watching the situation closely, but so far he has declined to make any statement.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN UNITED STATES.,
IMPROVEMENT FORECAST. FOR THE SPRING.
[UNITED PRESS.] WASHINGTON, March 30.-An up- ward tura for employment in the United States was forecast by the Department of Labour to-day for the spring months, affording relief, from the present widespread un- employment.
The Department statement said that business and industry had been
Considerable consolidating.
pro
a young Chinese named Loh Yeokgress had been made in that direc as, been sentenced to seven years tion since January, according to rigorous imprisonment for attempt the statement. ed murder of a woman named Low Heong Hoe.
now
Automobile production was climbing, after a period of slack negs,
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MONOPLANE WITH SIDE. BOARDS IN THE SALOON.
It is understood that they oppose
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Chủ Shro Luang, and the Canton- ese forces under General Chen Trai setting up anything in the nature Tong are pressing hard on Sun- «f Military Government chow, their next objectives. The Peping, but they suggest that a advance of the Government troops central secretariat, should be or- is necessarily slow and cautious, owing to their unfamiliarity with ganised here presently, and later the country.
The Canton aerial squadron of C, if a Government is established, some twenty airplanes are cas-it must be through the Kuomin- stantly raiding enemy positions and tang," dropping bombs with telling effect, An official communique states that two chips conveying Kwangsi troops have been sunk and two barracks destroyed during the last two days between Sanchow
and Nanning.
The number of casualties is said to be in the neighbourhood of 700. Nanning, Sunchow and other com mercial centres are being daily bombed from the air, and numerous civilians have been killed and pro- perty destroyed.
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KUOMINTANG MEMBERS COME FIRST!
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A wonderful monoplane air yacht constructed at Victkera Super-RECOMMENDED FOR CANTON marine works, Southampton, for the Hon. A. E. Guinness, is a striking illustration of the pre- gress in the use of air vehicles for pleasure purposes.
This is the first flying yacht built in this country to the order of a private owner, It is fitted with three powerful engines.
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The main feature of the situation. is the activity of Feng Yu Hsiang, who, since he arrived in Tungkuan, ordered all the forces in Shenzi and Kansu to concentrate on Honan. He has ordered the Shenai Governor to the front and has op pointed the Kansu Governor commander of the rearguard."
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Feng Yu siang in marching from Tungkuan to Layang with the troops of Sun Liang Chéng who was prominent in the fighting against the Central Government last autumn.
Twenty commanders in Honan, including Shih Yu San, have wired their allegiance to Feng, urging POSTS.
him to proceed to Chengchow im mediately to establish his head- According to statistics compiledquarters as vice-commander.. by the Canton Kuomintang Head- quarters, there are 284 unemployed members of the Kuomintang in the city. In order to show special favour to Kuomintang members, the Canton Municipality has re- commended them for employment in its various bureaux.
It will be remembered that the various Government organisations were sometime ago instructed by. the Central Government that, when they wanted to engage new men, Kuomintang members were to be Nor-employed, and
Mr. Guinness is the second son of the late Lord Iveagh. A few years ago he made a trip round the world on his auxiliary barque Fantome covering 31,000 miles in 11 months. For some time he has been enthusiastic about aviation.
The air yacht was specially de- signed to meet his needs. mully it can carry six passengers, a crew of three and G00lb., of bag age for too miles; but with full
tanks and a minimum,erew it has a range of 2,000 miles. It has a wing span of 92ft., is 66ft. long, and weighs 10 tons.
While waiting for the vessel to The complainant said that the
In response to President Hoover's be built Mr. Guinness has fre- accused visited her house and she invited him to have some mec.
call for construction work as an aidquently flown from England to his After the meal, feeling tired, she to relief of unemployment, there castle in Ireland and cruised over
the Irish lakes. a widespread beginning of retired to rest. An hour later, the accused approached her and stab-county and, municipal construction
work.
U.S. Tenders. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON," March 28. Replying to a contention that he was favouring American interests,bed her several times. Mr. Lees Smith explained that there were only two companies for these contracts, Marconi and Stand- ard. The latter, which was Ameri can, employed 7,000 Britons, and there was no reason for excluding it from the tendera: The question was automatically dropped at private business time.
-POLISH-POLITICS:
PILSUDSKI'S LUDICROUS
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The accused, who is only twenty years of age, said that he went to the woman's house to collect money she owed him. She did not want to speak to him and this annoyed him so he stabbed her.
The medical evidence was to the effect that the woman had fifteen her face. She had wounds all over her eye, her upper lip and her left arm.
The Malay judge, in passing Ben- tence, told the accused that he had tended to kill the woman but she had miraculously escaped.
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LADY ASTOR'S SON INJURED. TWO STEEPLECHASE RIDERS FALL
OFFER.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WARSAW, March 28,
'again Marahal Pilsudski is troubling politics. He has offered to participate in the Cabinet which his partisan, Professor Szymanski, (better known as an oculist than a politician), is attempting to form, on condition that the Deputies firstly, do not interfere with the composition of the Government or its conduct of affairs; secondly, that they do not interfere with the Budget; thirdly, that they rescind- Mr. Shaw had & lucky escape the law prohibiting the Govern from serious injury when his own ment from opening supplementary horse, Hat Rock, whom he was credits without parliamentary con riding in the second race, fell two sent; fourthly, that the Diet be not hurdles from the winning post. Hat questions, The convened, at least, until six Rock broke its neck and a fetlock,
months.
Mr. R. G. "Bobby") Shaw, koń of Lady Astor, and a venturesome amatear owner-rider, and Mr. R. Bennett, also a
noted amateur rider, were both injured following accidents during the racing at Bir minghain last month.
to a nursing home.
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GIRL IN A TRUNK.
POLICEMAN'S BRIGHT IDEA GOES WRONG.
ALLAHABAD, March 8.
For concealing a young Brahmin girl in a steel trunk with the object of taking her with him to the station where he had been trans- fred, a constable-named-Baleswar Ram of Shahpur police station, Allahabad District, has been sen tenced to two years' rigorous im- prisonment (including three months' solitary confinement) by. Rai Baha dur Thakur Jaswant Singh,, epecial magistrate..
Stainless Steel,
The hull and superstructure of the new machine are made of dura- lumin, with attachment fittings of stainless steel. Amidships are stub Boats that act as stabilisers, and provided with extra fuel tanks..
These stabilisers are sufficiently large to be used by the passengers as a deck when the vessel is at anchor, and form an easy connec tion with a tender that can be brought alongside.
There are
non-Kuoatintang members were to be dismissed first if there was any question of cutting down the staff.
CANTON TEMPLE
THREATENED.
TO BE TURNED INTO ART
GALLERY...
A report in a Cantonese contem- porary says that a resolution wes recently passed by the Munici- pality to confiscate the Sam Yuen Kung, the most famous and magni- ficent Taoist Temple in the city, A body of men were sent by the Municipality a few days ago to drive the Taoist monks out of the temple, but the latter strongly pro- tested, and have sent a petition to he allowed to remain.
It is reported that Government troops have constructed strong en- trenchments with barbed wire from Siangyang to Sinyangchow, a dis- tance of 500 miles.
DANISH ROYALTY · IN PEPING.
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PEPINO, March 27, Prince and Princess Axel with
the Danish Minister arrived this evening and were welcomed at the station by the Mayor of Peping and other notables, and by bands and a Chinese guard of honour,
"INCREASE IN U.S. TAX COLLECTIONS.
[UNITED PZK8S.]
Washington, March 20.-Income tax collections at the U.S. Treasury up to March totalled up-collections for the previous corresponding period.
This wan 843,000,000 in excess of collections for the previous corres- ponding period.
BRITISH WATER-SPEED BID.
4,000 H.P. CHALLENGE, TO AMERICA
Sir Henry Segrave's 4,000-b.p. The temple, which was built two motor-beat, now under construction thousand years ago, is at the foot at Cowes in preparation for an at of the Goddess of Mercy Hill, totempt to wrest from America her the North-West of the city. Part motor-boating speed supremacy, is of the premises has already been to be called Miss England IL
The Royal Motor Yacht Club has occupied by the Municipal School
The petition points out that the The saloon and cabins below temple and grounds are "private deck are spacious and comfortable, property and have been registered furnished like the saloons in sea-with the Government as such. The going yachts. boards, dressing tables,
side temple bouses a large number of bookcase monks who would be rendered and a wardrobe. In addition to homeless if driven out. the convenience of electric light there is a ventilating system by which the air is warmed or cooled. One morning the parents, of the
There are special quarters for girl were distracted when, after a search throughout the village, they with oil-cooking apparatus.
the crow, and galley, equipped could not and her. She had last
The wireless installation can re- of Fine Arts. The Municipality cabled on behalf of Great Britain been seen by her brother talking to the accused constable near a wall, the machine is in flight or at rest into an art gallery.
ceive or transmit messages when wish to turn the rest of the temple | an official challenge to the Yachts- made at the on the water. and a report was police station, ed to be within hearing, when the Constable Baleswar Ram happen- Head Constable, was listening to THE VANISHING RAILWAY the story of the girl's parents and strengthened the suspicions that he might be implicated in her disap- pearance by suddenly dashing into his room and chaining the door from inside.
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SIGNAL.
LENSES REPLACE" SEMA- PHORES.
tinctive colour are used for each separate lamp and a lens of dis-
indication.
Two, three, or four colours are employed, according to traffic conditions.
The Foreign Secretary Mr. Ar thur Henderson, together with off cials of the Foreign Office and the Egyptian Legation to-night met the Egyptian Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, and other members of the Egyptian delegation who have come to London to negotiate
It has been found in practice that these signals have greater fog the settlement of outstanding Bri- tish Egyptian
piercing powers than the usual The Head Constable, after call. Another stage in the elimination lamp and disc, which makes them negotiations will be based upon the
and Mr. Shaw was badly knocked out to Baleswar Ram to open of that familiar object, the railway of special value in the London area. progress of the British-Egyptian
Party leaders have refused to about and cut across the forehead. the door and receiving no response, signal, is heralded by the decision They have been adopted by the treaty published last August, after
accept these terms, and Szymanski
Ho was able to walk back to the conversations in London between has abandoned the formation of a weighing-room, but, having sustain-forced an entry through the win of the Great Western Railway to London and North Eastern and the dow. Accused at Brst denied all substitute the customary sema London Midland and Scottish, in Mahmud Parha, then the Egyptian Cabinet. Premier and Mr. Henderson. Call be recalled that the Gov-ed slight concussion, he was taken knowledge of the girl but, on being phore arm by colour light signals addition to the Southern, but he rebuked, he opened the box in his on the whole of the main line be- Great Western has hitherto only These proposals were describedernment resigned on December 28,
room and revealed the girl inside. tween Southall and Paddington.used them on an experimental ser- by Mr. Headerson in a covering following a vote of censure.
Marshal Pilsudski's brother,
In Court the girl said that Bales. This important section is letter as representing, the extreme
ninetion, where testa have been con war Ram used to meet her when miles in length, and is four-track ducted since 1928. limit to which he could recommend Jean, is forming a Cabinet.
she used to go to the well to draw throughout. the British Government to go in
water and always appealed to her to come away with him to Benares and other places, promising to give her good food and fine clothes.
One day the constable would not let her go until she had promised to accompany him. He told her to come to his room
* certain morning.
She did so, and as some other constables were asleep in the room the time Baleswar Ram told her to jump inside his box.
She lay down in the trunk and he closed it.
their desire to achieve a lasting and
honourable settlement,"
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Horse Destroyed, Hat Rock's race, also fell, and was Windeote, another competitor in
destroyed.
Nahas Pasha, who, after the CAPTAIN'S SUDDEN DEATH fall from Hat Rock, but was then
* {THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENDY.]
A fortnight previously, at Notting, ham races. Mr. Shaw had a bad able to limp back to the paddock. Egyptian Parliamentary election
He also bad'a 'fall in 1916, and in succeeded Mahmud Pasha, as Prime
1023 he was so badly hurt that he Minister, issued in February
had to have an operation on his statement describing the proposed treaty as prompted by the spirit of
1. The accident to Mr. Bennett os- conciliation, and received from the Egyptian Parliament. a mandate to ing, of which he was in command,curred in the third race. His make the present journey to Londes from New York to Plymouth, Can-mount, Toy Bell, fell, and Mr. to negotiate. The British High tain William Rind was taken Bennett was so heavily thrown that Commissioner, Sir Percy Loraine, on the bridge, and died of apolexy, he broke a leg and his collar bone. is already in London and will assist. His body is being embalmed and He was removed at once to the in the negotiations,
wil be taken back to New York. nursing home.
LONDON, March 27. Three quarters of an hour after head. bringing the liner, President Hard-
con
men's Association of America.
The actual struggle, the most hectic in the history of motor boat racing, takes place at Detroit in August,
This will be the seventh attempt to recapture the British Interna tional Trophy from the United States, France having made two. attempts and Great Britain four.
Two Rolls-Royce engines, each. developing something like 2,000 h.p., will be dropped into the some what frail-looking craft. Theat, it is estimated,wil hurl the heat along the surface of the water at speed of from 100 to 120 miles an
hour.
The present record is just over 93 miles an hour, and is held by Com- modore Car Wood, of America.
The engines are on the Air The. semaphore signal, of which Ministry's secret list, and may re-. The colour light signal, in which the honourable history almost co- main so until after the event, a the customary combination of lens incides in length with that of the they are still being improved, and semaphore is replaced by lenses railway itself, is of course, not They will be guarded by alone, is a relative innovation, but doomed to speedy disappearance mechanics day and night, and these has made.considerable headway on But modern conditions are tending mechanics will travel with the boat English railways during recent to eliminate it on very congested to Detroit to ensure that no one years, notably on the electrified sections of the main line, especially price into its secrets.
Even Sir sections of the Southern. While those which are electrically worked., Henry Segrave himself will be for- the ordinary signal is equipped Its employment on the Southern hidden to touch the engines. with only one lamp, acrose which has incidentally enabled a marked The United States is replying to there move the red, green, and reduction to be made in the number the challenge with a boat also orange discs indicating stop," of signal boxes, and experience to equipped with engines developing * proceed," and "proceed with cau- date shows that the safety factor approximately 4,000 horse-power. tion," in the colour light signal is, on the whole, higher thap with In her case, however, four engines
(Continued on next Column.) the manually operated "method, will be used.
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