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THE HONG KONG "DAILY PRESS. MONDAY,

GANDHI AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARRIVE |NAVAL CONFERENCE JAPAN'S AIR FORCE:

AT DANDI.

GOVERNMENT THANKED FOR NON-INTERFERENCE

WITH HIS MARCH.

RAMDAS GANDHI AND MANY VOLUNTEERS ARRESTED. ́

(THROCON REUTER'S" LOENCY.]

Salt Carriers Arrested.

Bomsay, April 8. BOMBAY, April 5,

Kothari has arrived at Viram Accompanied by some eighty folgam. forty miles from Ahmedabad, lowers Gandhi has nearly completed with a party of fifty-five Volunteers his march to the sea, tonight he each carrying five pounds of salt. encamped three miles from Dandi.

Gandhi proposes to extract salt Tho Superintendent of the Police from the zen in defiance to the at Ahmedabad has arrested the Government Salt Monopoly and thus inaugurate antyagraha

or party and has seized the salt. Civil Disobedience. Meanwhile a

neighbourhood.

body of armed Police has arrived in [On April 3 Gandhi, through his newspaper Young India; authorised the starting of Civil Disobedience an April 6

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BOMBAY, April 5, Gandhi has arrived at Dandi. Request to Postpone Campaign. BOMBAY, April 5. A deputation of the Indian National Anti-Revolution Party has arrived at Dandi with a view to requesting Gandhi to postpone his Anti-Salt Campaign and instead to fight" untouchability."

Illegal Manufacture of Balt,

CALCUTTA, April 5. The Nationalist Press is Alled with reare headlines, such as "I Eight," in connection with the start of the Civil Disobedience Campaign on April 6.

Kothari, who is the President of

the Gujerat Provincial, Congress Committee, led an abortive passive resistance movement in the state of Malia Kathiawar, last January.

The police have confiscated a ton of salt which was collected by 150: volunteers in the Bardoli and Jalalpur districts..

Three miles from Dandi the volunteers have restarted to collect salt.

Gandhi's Son In Custody,

SAURAT, April '6. - It

is reported that Ramdas Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi, and a few other volunteers were ar- rested at Bhimrad village in the Chorasi district.

Ugly Scenes in Bombay,...

BOMBAY, April 4, Thirty persons were injured and had to be sent to hospital when the police were forced to fire, on

AMERICANS TO LEAVE,

NEXT WEEK.

HOPE OF FIVE-POWER AGREEMENT ABANDONED.

(THROUGH REUTER'&"AGENCY.]

LONDON, April 4. It is understood in "American Naval Delegation circles that hopa of reaching an agreement on & Five Power basis has been virtually aban

doned..

The delegation has booked pasS- ages for America for April 22.

It is thought that the outcome of the Conference will be an effective Three-Power agreement between British, America and Japan and an agreement on minor points be- tween all the five Powers, Britain, America, Japan, France and Italy. French Claim for Superiority.

LONDON, April 4.

"

It is learned from an Italian dele gation source that Signor Grandi, in this recent conversations, em- phasised that the chief questions for the Conference are on Naval dis- armament and are not political,

Signor Grandi has now been. away from Romo for eleven weeks and there is an accumulation of

work, awaiting him there. The Italiana, however, have no inten- tion of precipitating matters and have made no travelling arrange-

ments.

The main centre of this part of India is to be Cintai, a, small sea- const town.. on the borders of Rengel and Orissa, where it is resula Railway. ported that hundrede are expected The injured people. include a to engage in the illegal manufac European polien Sergeant and a ture of malt.

European man and a woman. Yesterday afternoon a meeting, Two thousand. strikers succeeded which was presided over by Singuin foreing in entrance into the puta, passed & resolution condemnatation and then demanded to beference and their expert advisers ing the action of the police for taken to Byculla.

crowd of disorderly railway Italian side of the Conference elicit A question regarding the Franco- strikers outside the Victoria 'ter- minus of the Great Indian Penin-ed the reply "It is no longer a question of Italy's claim for parity but of France's claim for superio- rity."

firing on the Carter rioters on The railway officials refused to Tuesday and urging the Labour grant the demand and the mob, by Organisations to prepare for this time incensed, made a noisy general strike.

demonstration, tearing down poe Abdul Hakim, the general scere-ters and harassing passengers and tary of the Workers Peasant Party, passers-by. and Abdul Momin, secretary of the Carters Union have been arrested.

Gandhi's Thanks.

BOMBAY, April 5. Gandhi during an interview de- clared God be thanked for a happy ending to the first stage of this, for me at least, a final struggle for freedom. I cannot withhold my

The police were summoned and when they arived they were pelted by the mob with stones. Finally. the police were forced to fire and the mob then retreated.

The police are still guarding the railway station.

"Brickbats for Balons."

BOMBAY, April 5.

compliments from the Government The police action of firing on the for their polies of complete non-railway strikers yesterday evening interference with my march." in Arid to have hastened Satya

graha (civil disobedience) on the railways.

Police Prepared for Trouble.

JALALPUR, April

Four hundred armed police have arrived here and more have gone to Dandi in readiness for any even- tualities to-morrow..,

Gandhi has announced that if he is arrested Abbas Tyabii, a retired high court judge from Baroda, will take his place.

Relays of volunteers are ready to start and by this means it is ex- pected that the selling of contra- band salt at Ahmedabad will com

mence to-morrow.

Salt Laws Broken.

[PAITIE WIDELESS SERVICE.]

Recay, April 4. The delegates to the Naval Con-

SAVING ON SUBMARINES TO BE USED FOR 'PLANES.

THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY:]

TOKYO, April 4.

APRIL 7. 1930.

JAPAN'S COTTON

INDUSTRY.

BIG COMPANY REDUCES WAGES.

RESULT OF NEW INDIAN TARIFF.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Toxye, April 6.

The Kancgaluchi Cotton Spin- ning Co., one of the largest in Japan, bas caused great surprise by the sudden announcement of its intention to reduce the wages of 35,000 employees by 30 per cent. effective on April 10.

The Navy is reported to be plan- ning a demand for part of the Bavings effected by the Naval Agreement to be appropriated for the expansion of the Naval Air Force which has at present 17 squadrons, to 25, giving approxim- ately 1,000 machines, which will

The nominal reason of this dras cost Yen 60,000,000, for the purpose the action is that the company has of making good the loss of national decided to abolish the special allow defence resulting from the reducance granted in war time, as it is no longer considered necessary, but tion in submarines.

the actual cause in believed to be While well-informed circles state the blow inflicted to the cotton industry by the new Indian taríff, that the report is based on telligent anticipation, the Pre- mier, speaking" to Pressmen, de- clared that the Government had not yet considered any such pre- posal though he admitted that the Vice-Minister of the Navy had sug, gested that part of the funds saved should be devoted to the improve- ment of "Naval efficiency and wea-

pons of war.

It is generally believed that the main saving, which is estimated at over Yen. 100,000,000 yearly, will be devoted to the lightening of taxation and relief of unemploy ment, though it is probable that improvement of the Naval Air some will be appropriated to the

Force.

WILL AMERICA · REMAIN DRY?

RESULT OF LITERARY DIGEST POLL.

H

MAJORITY AGAINST

PROHIBITION.

{REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

again spent several hours to-day in the search for a formula setting out the agreed interpretation of certain articles of the League Covenant. Although their efforts have not yet been successful, the task has been abandoned and hopes are still entertained than a formula may be found which will so increase France's sense of security as to enable her to make an appreciable reduction in her naval tonnage re quirements without explicity or im plicity extending the obligations to which Britain is committed under the League Covenant and the Locarnoted for its stern fundamentalists. no Treaty.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Mac- Donald, and the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Henderson, accompanied by Sir Robert Vansittart and others, M. Briand, at luncheon and had a met the French Foreign Minister; discussion on the subject which last. ed till after four o'clock.

The discussion will be resumed at St. James's Palace to-morrow morn.

At a mass meeting of the Great India Peninsular Railway strikers held this morning it was decided to 'paralyse' train services "1 by batches of strikers prostrating themselves on the railway lines.

The strikers slogan is now "bricking. bata for batons, and they are, in structed if molested by the police to retaliate with Indian. Bullets (stones).

volunteered for Satyagraha (civil It is estimated that 70,000 have

disobedience).

Eight Strikers Wounded. DANDI, April. 6.

BOMBAY, April 6. After prayers Gandhi with eighty. four volunteers proceeded, exactly Seven strikers of the Great India ata.m., for a bath in the sen. A Peninsular Railway were seriously large crowd accompanied the party, wounded as a result of the police Gandhi, walking at a slow pace Bring on them this morning at and with grave solemnity, headed Kurla station, eight miles from the his volunteers and they entered city of Ruikär the sea water amid loud cries of Mahatma Gandhi Gijai.

Gandhi and his volunteere then proceeded to break the Salt Law by picking up the salt lying on the

shore.

BOMBAY, April 8. Manilal Kothari, one of Gandhi's chief lieutenants, has been arrested at Virangam..

The President of the Railway- men's Union at Khandalkar, the President of the Red Fing Union and the leader of the strikers t Kurla station were arrested for making speeches in defiance of police ordern.

The strikers started passive resist ance at Thana station, twelve miles from the city and stood on the lines with the object of "paralysing" Gandhi the "Law-Breaker.".

the train service, but were dispersed DANDI, April 6.

by Pathana armed with lathik The No police were present when strikers stoned the Pathans and Gandhi and his followers broke line-men four of whom were serious the Salt Law. Gandhi, while ly wounded. his volunteere were picking up the salt, leant on the shoulder of his

daughter, Abbas Tyabji, he was

Boycott of Foreign Goods,

BOMBAY, April 5. also accompanied by Mrs. Sarojini The Piece Goods Merchants Asso- Daidu who hailed him, as the "law-ciation at Bombay has decided not breaker."

to buy foreign cloth for three

Gandhi has made a statement to mouths. the Press advising workers every- where to manufacture salt and to fight against the salt tax, also

Editor Imprisoned.

NEW DELHI, April 5. Indra, the Editor of the news urging that it should be continued paper Argun and President of the during the national week up to Youth League, has been sentencod. April 13. Those who are engaged to nine months' imprisonment for on the sacred work should devote sedition.

themselves to vigorous propaganda

for the boycott of all foreign cloth

TREATY.

and for the prohibition of liquor," BRITAIN AND EGYPT... added Gandhi.

He is preparing a message for NEGOTIATIONS TO CONCLUDE the women of India who, he is be coming more and more convinced, could make a larger contribution than men towards the attainment of independence...

Gandhi has sent a message to children in which he says "Let the kiddies spin while their elders court gaol."

[BEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, April 4 The negotiations for the conclu- sion of the British and Egyptian treaty were continued at a meeting in the Foreign Office to-day. Vari .The Congress Committee of ous points were discussed in the Volunteers broke the Salt Law at light of observations furnished, by Juhu beach, ten miles from Bombay, the Egyptian delegation and good was raade. A further this morning by boiling sea water.progress

No police were present and there meeting has been arranged for. was no incident.

Monday.

Meanwhile the principal Naval perts of the United States, Britain, and Japan spent a great part of the day examining the re servations attached to the Japanese Government's reply to the compro- mise tonnage proposals addressed to Tokyo. Good progress was made.

The submarine experts met this afternoon on the subject of the pro- posals for the humanising of sub. marine warfare and limiting the size of submarines. It is expected that a report of these experts will be forthcoming in the course of the next few days.

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Premier to be 'Questioned: [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, April 5. The Daily Mail says the Conser. vatives are so perturbed about the continued Anglo-French discussions of a formula to meet the French demands arising at the Naval Cen- ference that they will put a series. to' the of scarching questions Premier in the House of Commons on April 4, and if the answers are not reassuring they will probably demand a debate, an adverse vote the on which should lead to Government's resignation."

A Hopeless Position The Daily Herald says that the prospect of the success of the Anglo- French negotiations is very alight.

M. Briand telephoned to M. Tardieu, the French Prime Minis- ter, in Paris, last night and both concluded that the position was

hopeless."

Progress Made.

LONDON, April 5 After conferring with Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Hen- derson at St. James' Falace this morning M. Briand declared that the Anglo-French viewpoints had

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Mr.

now become much closer and that great progress had been wande dur- ing the morning.

M. Briand left for Paris in the afternoon and is returning to Lob- don on Tuesday,

BOMBS IN GETHSEMANE.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

JERUSALEM, April 5." Five bombs have been discover- ed in the garden of Gethsemane,

NEW YORK, April 5. In giving the results of its poll, the Literary Digest announces that out of the forty States canvassed only two have shown a majority in favour of the enforcement of the present prohibition laws, namely, Kansas, the stronghold" of Puri- tanism, and Tennessee which is

The Literary Digent also states that out of the 2,000,000 votes

already counted about 42 per cent, were in favour for the repeal of

the prohibition laws. Nearly 30 per cent. favoured a modification of the present hawa and the re- mainder voted "Dry."

In every Southern State, except: Tennessee, the combined vote for modification, or repeal, was larger than the vote for enforcement.

In Maryland the vote for the complete repeal exceeded the com

enforcement, bined votes for modification' and

while' Maine,

the

grandmother of prohibition," show-

ed 4,000 votes for the full enforce- ment of the present law, 2,500 for modification-and 4,000 for the "re- peal of the prohibition laws.

A. W. GAMAGE'S DEATH.

FOUNDER OF FAMOUS STORE.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

LONDON, April &

The death is announced" of 'Mr. A. W. Gamage, the founder of the famous store.

[Mr. Gamage was born in 1855. and educated at Hereford. Aller

leaving school he was apprenticed to the drapery trade and went to London in 1874. In 1878 he found- ed the business of A. W. Gamage, 128, Holborn, athletic outfitters, with one mas. In 1908 he bought the business of Benetink & Co., Cheapside. Mr. Gamage we a keen sportsman, president of many athletic, clubs, and a warm sup- porter of workman's clubs.

PROPOSED FLIGHT TO CAPE TOWN.

RETURN TRIP TO BE COM- FLETED IN 10 DAYS:

BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Ruany, April 6... : Early next week Captain Bar nard, with the Duchess of Bed ford as passenger and Mr. Little as second pilot, in due to start on a flight from London to Cape Town and back

A Fokker machine fitted with a British Bristol Jupiter engine sizni lar to the one in the machine in which the Duchess of Bedford and Captain Barnard last year flew to India and back in a week will be used

It is hoped to reach Cape Town in ten days and to return to Croy- don in a further nine days. This would beat all records previously made on this route..

STORY OF BANDIT

OUTRAGE.

POLICE UNABLE TO TRACE ATTACKERS.

SHOT BY ACCIDENT.

[THROÇORİ RAUTER'S AGENCY.]

"DEATH OF QUEEN

OF SWEDEN.

LENGTHY SUFFERING FROM

CHEST TROUBLE.

PASSES AWAY IN ROME.

Irakovan «KUTER'S AGENCY.1

Row, April 4. The death took place to-day, bà her villa in Rome, of Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Sweden. Tho Queen had been at her villa here for a long time suffering from chest trouble.

Her Majesty was born. at Karlsruhe, Germany in 1889, her father being the Grand Duke Fried- rick the First of Baden, who died in 1907, and her mother the Prin- cess Luise of Prussia, daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm the First,

TIENTSIN, April 4." Mr. A. P. Cullen arrived this afternoon with Mr. Scarlett's body. Interviewed, he detailed the out- rage as follows: The missionaries arrived at Peitaiho Junction about five o'clock on Wednesday evening and were proceeding to the beach on donkeys when, at about 5.30, in "broad daylight, roughly eight li from the junction, they wore een fronted by three Chinese in civilian clothes, who suddenly produced pistols and covered the foreigners, The leader held up Mr. Cullen, who was riding ahead, while the remain.

She was married at Karlsruhe in ing two attended to Mr. Scarlett. "

The bandits demanded the foreig-1881 to the then Crown Prince hers to hand over money and valu- of Sweden, now King Gustav V. ables and while Mr. Cullen was and on December 8, 1907, she as- complying, he heard a shot behind and looking back saw Mr. Scarlett fall from his donkey. The murder ers then rushed ap, urging the leader to be quick, and after search- ing the foreigners' suitcases, the three hastily decamped, LADY MISSIONARIES SAFE. Scarlett was lying and found life Mr. Cullen rushed to whero Mr.

combined with the general trade depression.

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According to the vernacular papers, the authorities fully watching the resultant situa- tion owing to its bearing on the general, social and economic condi- tions,

(THROUGH "REUTER'S AGENOT.]

Mrs.

CHANGSHA, April 6. Glazier and Miss Bugg (British), two members of the China Inland Mission who escaped arrived at Changsha from Ping- capture by bandits on March 30, hsiang by train this afternoon. Mr. Glazier who also escaped is remaining in Pinghsiang and is waiting för instructions.

cended the Swedish Throne with him. There are two sons of the marriage, the Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Prince Wil- liam of Sweden.

Of recent years the Queen's health has been bad and she has spent tuning to Sweden at the end of much time in the South and on re-

almost extinct, with a bullet two June, 1928, she was reported to be inches above the heart. Mr. Scar-"suffering from heart attacks. lett died in five minutes..

Her health subsequently improv Later assistance was hastily jumed, but the doctors considered it moned" from the nearest village, a impossible for her to remain in litter procured and the body taken Sweden during the winter, and abo to Peitaiño.

Was advised to leave immediately for some health resort in the South.

mised every assistance, but do not The police and military have pro- appear to be hopeful of finding the miscreants.

Mr. Cullen expresses the opinion that the bandits were inexperinced and shot possibly by accident, as the miscreants appeared to be con- WAR DECLARED AGAINST siderably flustered during the whole

YEN.

NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT ISSUES MANDATE,

(THROUGH RIVIER'S AGENCY.}.

NANKING, April 3. The National Government has issued a mandate to-day ordering & punitive expedition against Yen Hsi

Shao.

No News of Fighting.

PEPINO, April 3. Despite the numerous daily re ports of the advances and with drawals of the opposing troops there is no news of fighting. the contrary the Shansi troops and the Shantung "forces are fraternis ing as they come into touch with each other in North Shantung.

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SENATE RATIFIES YOUNG PLAN.

proceeding.

COAL MINING INDUSTRY.

POSITION IMPROVES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}.

RUGBY, April 5. The statistical department of the

Later the donkey boys were in- terrogated by the police and con- fessed to seeing the bandits loiter-Times has issued a statistical sum- ing at the junction when the for- mary of the working resulta of the eigners arrived, and believed that coal mining industry for the last they detoured to intercept the mis quarter of 1999. For the first time sionaries on the road. The affair since work was renumed, after the has created intense interest in stoppage of 1920, there is a credit Tientain, where Mr. Scarlett is a balance on the quarter's trading in respected member of a missionary all districts. body, and widespread sympathy is felt for the bereaved wife and chil. dren.

DEATH OF DR. ODRISCOLL. WELL-KNOWN SHANGHAI

RESIDENT.

[TROUK REUTER'S AGENCY.}

SHANGHAI, April 57 It is announced that Dr. J. A. Odriscoll died suddenly this morn ing.

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A GIANT GUSHER,

2,000 BARRELS OF OIL PER HOUR.

THROUGH KLUYER'S AGENCY.]

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was in-

OKLAHOMA, April 5. "A giant gusher which had for several days been shooting up an' uncontrollable jet of oil closed on Monday, it was then (Dr. Odriscoll served in the late giving a flow of 9,000 barrels per war as an officer of the Guards and hour. The gusher was successfully later with the R.A.M.C. in Siberia.capped yesterday, but early this He PARIS, April 5.

an expresident of the morning the cap flew off and the The Senate has ratified the Saint Patrick's Society in Shangcolumn of oil stated re-shooting

high over the Crown Block. Young Plar by 2s votes to 8.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT.]

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