1930-04-28 — Page 9

INDIAN CRISIS.

SERIOUS SITUATION IN PËSHAWAR.

SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN.

"FUTURE OUTLOOK GLOOMY.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1930.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN BEING EVACUATED."

FEW ORDERS FOR CARGO BOATS.

[TEROCON REUTER'S ACENOT.]

SIMA, April 5,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

·

PRINCE OF WALES' THE NAVAL TREATY. BOXER REBELLION

RETURN.

MARSEILLES TO WINDSOR

BY 'PLANE.

END OF 18,000 MILES TOUR,

【THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, April 20.

"LONDON, April 25. The authorities are taking a

The quarter which ended last

The Prince of Wales ended his serious view of the recent events in March was the worst experienced 19,000 miles' tour in characteristic "India, especially the troubles at

in the British shipbuilding in fashion by flying from Marseilles Peshawar from where all European. women and children are being dustry for several years, accord-straight Home, not to a public evacuated. It is believed that mili-ing to a statement issued by the aerodrome, but to his private land. tion During the quarter 30 per ing ground at Windsor Great Park cent. of the shipping firms did not

tary, leave from India is likely to Shipbuilding Employers' Federa be stopped.

Public Confidence Restored.

within a stone's throw of his new

SIMLA, April 26. received a single order. The state-country house, Ford Belvedere, and The position in Peshawar has ment reveals that orders for cargo-4

few minutes' motor run from improved considerably as the result

Custle, of a conference of the Chief Com-boats were almost negligible, and Windsor

where their missioner with leading citizens. tank orders, which bave been a Majesties are in residence. Machine guns are still posted at

French Escort, vital points, the garrison has been reinforced and public confidence is restored.

It has been ascertained that the

total number of admissions to hos-

pital in connection with the dis turbances is twenty-five.

Border tribesmen have not been affected.

.

Railway Volunteers Mobilised.. BOMBAY, April 25.

notable feature in recent years, practically ceased, while private yards have only half the warship construction work of a year ago, and less than "one-seventh of the average under construction during 1912-14.

ו.

The Prince of Wales's liner e.s

Rawalpindi arrived at Marseilles from Port Said at 5.45 p.m. and the Prince, who was looking well, im- mediately strode down the gangway and motored to Morignane acro- drome, where three Royal Air Force machines from England were wait-

A large proportion of the 1,614,000 tons being constructed at the end of March is in the comple-ing. tion stage Prospects for the im- mediate future are gloomy as prac tically no cargo-beats are now being

A Gazette Extraordinary an- nounces that the Governor has directed the immediate embodiment of 120 of the rank and file in the first battalion of the G.I.P. Rail-ordered. way Regiment and 65 of the gank and file in the first battalion, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment, an auxiliary force in India, to supplement His Majesty's regular forces in the event of emergency.

Sixteen Constables Wounded.

CALCUTTA, April 26. One person was killed and three, sent to hospital as the result of a fracas

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Diamond Harbour when 2,000 villagers collected, in defiance to Police orders, and pro- eceded to make salt. The police who ordered them to disperse were bombarded with stones, and sixteen constables were wounded. The policë then red on the law-breakers"

Strikera Barm Shop and House.

DORGAM, MYSOnɛ, April 26. Strikers from the Balaghat gold mine burned down a meat vendors' shup and house A general exodus of mine coolies to surrounding villages has started."

The Chittagong Insurgents.

CALCUTTA, April 27.

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THE C.E.R. CONFERENCE.aerodrome, Lyons for petrol. The 175

TO OPEN ON MAY 15.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HARIN, April 28.

The Sino-Soviet conference re- garding the C.E.R. is to be formally opened on May 15 as expected last month.

THE FLYING DUCHESS.

GOOD PROGRESS ON RETURN FLIGHT...

The Prince of, Wales was pilot- ed by Squadron Leader Don and they started their fight at 7.35 p.m. They intended to go straight to Le Bourget, but stopped at Brog

miles from Marseilles to Lyons og cupied 90 minutes. Wine was brought by French officers of the aerodrome, who toasted the Prince of Wales, who returned, the courtesy very cordially.

The Prince minutes later took off and arrived at Bourget 11.65, having taken 280 minutes from Marseilles. The two escorting machines rose higher in the air and circled over the aero drome twice while the Prince's. 'plane landed.

It

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BITTER JAPANESE COMMENT.

NAVAL PARTY OBJECTIONS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

TOKYO, April 26. The vernacular Press is giving prominence to statements made by

MEMORIES.

ANGLO-AMERICAN REUNION,

LIEUT. HERBERT HOOVER.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

LAUNCH HITS MINE KWANGSI CAMPAIGN

AND SINKS..

INTERVIEW WITH ¡C-IN-C.

[FRUM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

HUNDRED KILLED" BY EXPLOSION.

STARK TRAGEDY FOLLOWS ROBBERS TRAIL,

a Chinese report According to from Canton, more than one hus- dred passengers of the Canton

steam launch Tung Chungshan Hing were killed by the explosion

CANTON, April 97.

11

&fow General

General Chen Tsai Tong return, ed to Canton from Wuchow yester

WASHINGTON, April 27.

day for a consultation with General Chen Ming Shu and other high off- The storming of Tientsin by the

cials with regard to the problems Welch Fusiliers. and American anonymous naval authorities bitter- Marines during the Boxer rebellion

of financing the war with the Kwangsi Iranside coalition aboard the vessel isst Thursday... ly attacking Baron Shidehara's was recalled by a colourfal cere speech in

It appears that the vessel, with Kwangsi. He was accompanied by the Diet Festerday,

mony at a dinner of the Gridiron

over $10,000 worth of cargo and Admiral Chea Chak and charging Baron Shidehars with ten newspaper correspondents, at

Club, an organisation of Washing about two hundred passengers, on members of his staff.

board, arrived at Pak Fa Tou, on Chen Tsai Tong isunderstood to".. London Naval Treaty on Japanese Ronald Lindsay were the guests of clock midnight, when the vessel monthly allowance of $4,200,000 102 misrepresenting the effects of the which President Hoover and Sirits way to Canton, at about 19 have declared that the present naval defence, and denying Baron honour. To the stirring strains of struck the mine laid there by the military expenditure is not enough Shidebara's assertion that thea new military march by Sousa the

of which 8300,000 is to cover special navy's views were fully considered diners were told of the entry of the cobbers under the notorious Kai and that he wants $360,000 more, before the pact was accepted

Fusiliers and Marines into the city Hung. The bow of the vessel was Vernacular papers are reviving to the rescue of the beleaguered completely wrecked, and over forty expenses consequent upon military. the reports that the resignation of foreigners who had waited for weeks passengers were killed by the ex- operations in Kwangsi, and the rest Admiral Kanji Kato is imminent, almost hopelessly for the coming of hour,

plosion. The vessel sank in half as and are protesting against the troops, protected by a barricade London Naval Treaty which they of rice and sugar bags, and it was state is unconfirmable.

Premier's Letter.

LONDON, April 28. Mr. Rainsay Macdonald's cover- ing letter when he forwarded the the Secretary-General of the League text of the London Naval Tready to of Nations dated April 1 has been published. It recapitulates the re- sults obtained and hopes that the preparatory commission will find therein a contribution which will facilitate its future labours.

· THE NAUGHTY GIRLS OF JAPAN:

FOUND TO BE ON THE

INCREASE..

[UNITED PRESS.] Tokyo, April 16-Juvenile delin- quency on the part of girls is on the increase in Japan, according to officials of the Tokyo juvenile

A tow boat rescued over 40 of the passengers and crew and sailed at a happy coincidence that the bagsfull speed for Sheski, where a tele- were set in position by a young gram was dispatched to Canton American engineer who was then plain. Herbert Hoover.

reporting the incident.

High Marine Corps officers pre- sent included General Smedley field at Tientsin wounded. Souza's Butler who was carried off the new match will be presented to the Royal Welch Fusiliers in London shortly by General Dawes.

was

is to be an addition to the regular military monthly expenditure. It is reported that both Nanking and the Provincial Government of Kwanz ting have approved of this increase.

In an interview with the local pressmen yesterday at the railroad

wangs! situation is well under station in Shekwaitong, General Chen Tsai Tong said that the

hard on Kweihsten and Sunchow

"Our men, are pressing

control.

opposite banks of the West River overlooking these two cities, The insurgents are separated from us only by the river, and firing is con- stantly exchanged. Heavy fighting will ensue when our men are given, the signal to cross the river.”

robbers arrived on the scene in tea Shortly after the explosion, the boats and intimated that they enme had to embark on the outlaws' ves- to rescue the survivors. The letter sels, as the steam launch they have dag themselves in on the gradually sinking.

The robbers tried to seize the tow-boat, but, the vessel contrived to escape.

It is stated by the ill-fated ves. sel's owners that the robbers car ried away about a hundred passen- gers, whom they had rescued." It is estimated that more than a hundred passengers lost their lives, being killed either by the explosion or drowned. The Canton Fong Pin Charitable Hospital has dispatched ismen to pick up the corpses.

SPEEDING UP OF AMERICAN AIR MAILS.

12.

1

[EXUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

WASHINGTON, April An important step in Pan- American air communications being inaugurated by Col. Lind- berg, namely, a seven day air mail service from New York to Buenos Aires and Montevideo by the speed ing up of, mails by four days.

Asked as to the exact whereabouts of the main bulk of the enemy, he said that they are largely concen- trated in Nanning and Linckov, and that those defending Kweihsien and Sanchow are insignificant. The numerical strength of the Kwangi-"Ironside coalition, ac cording to General Chen Trai Tong, does zot exceed 13,000.

It is understood that the pro- prietor of the vessel in question recently received over ten threaten- ing letters from the bandits who perpetrated the crime. The letters disregarded, hence the tragedy, by way of retaliation. LABOUR DAY PRECAUTIONS

were

firearms and had on several occa sions exchanged fire with the ban- dits.

courts. During 1929, 13,365 offen GRAF ZEPPELIN RETURNS. The vessel was well equipped with. ders appeared before the two courts" and of this number more than 12,000 were reprimanded and released. girls and this figure showed a mark- Five per cent, of the offenders were ed increase over other years.

Included among the offences were In view of the Prince's in-

theft, extortion, loose morals, the

criminal attacks, opium smoking, cognito

public were not adtitted to the aerodrome. Only and even murder. The two courts the Ambassador, Lord Tyrrell, recently observed the eighth anni and officers of the 34th Aviation vereary of their founding under the Regiment greeted His Royal High-juvenile law, which separated all [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

who lunched in the regi persons under 18 years from the mental mess and again started at usual criminal category. ROGBT. April "25.

1.44 p.m., escorted by 10 French The Duchess of Bedford who left aeroplanes to the ecast in addition Capetown on Monday on her return to the British escort. They flew fight to England arrived at Kharover St. Inglevert at 2.54 and Cap tou: yesterday afternoon. She left Grisnez at 3.02. Here 10 British seaplanes tock up the escort across

1233,

A Government communiqué an-Khartoum at 6.15 this morning for nounces that two platoons of Assam | Assuit, or possibly Cairo, and the Channel. Rifles arrived, at Chittagong on hopes the return flight to England The Prince of Wales landed April 28.

will beat the record established on at Windsor Park at 3.58, and According to unofficial advices her outward journey, when in nine- was greeted by the Duke of from Chittagong the men who were and-a-half days she flew 9,250 miles York and Prince George and drova responsible for the outbreak ona Capetown.

to Ford Belvedere, where their April 14 and repaired to the

Majesties", welcomed the Prince Mathazari Range have since fled

home. There was brilliant sunshine from there. Twenty-three guns and

| throughout the flight. some ammunition have been seized.

Twenty-one arrests were made in the Mokhali area where an attempt was recently made to arrest some men aboard a train on suspicion of being concerned in the Chittagong outrage. Some men escaped by üeing revolvers.

Twenty Killed.

PESHAWAR, April,27.

CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE

TO CARTHAGE.

A FLOATING CHURCH.

[UNITED PRES.]

LINDBERGH ON NEW RECORD FLIGHT.

New York, April 18-A floating| TAKES 3 HOURS OFF PREVIOUS

church, the str. Rochambeau. will depart from New York on Tuesday carrying pilgrims from Бесп

An official casualty list in the Catholic dioceses to participate in recent riots states that twenty were the Eucharistic Congress at Car. tilled and about thirty are at prethage. sent being treated in hospitals. Cardinal O'Donnell heads the The ship is fitted with eight al- tars for religious ceremonies. route.

HOME BYE-ELECTION,

STRAIGHT LABOUR-CONSER- VATIVE FIGHT.

(THROUGH MEUTZE': AGENCY.]."-

LONDON, April 20.

groups

On the voyage out the Rocham- ocau will stop at Gibraltar and Algiers. It will call at Naples and Havre on the return trip.

TIME.

(UNITED PRESS.)

Wichita, Kan, April 20.-Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh

arrived by aeroplane at 9.20 o'clock this afternoon from Glendale, Cal.,

on an attempt to set a new trans- continental speed record.

They were officially timed as having covered the distance in eh. 58min. 10sec., averaging 170 miles

an hour.

Refueiling without stopping their motor, they departed 18 minutes later for New York. They expect

The West Fulham bye-election NEW MAGIC CARPET OF to arrive at Roosevelt Field at

will be straight fight between Jabour and conservatives who will be represented by J. W. Banfield and Sir Cyril Scott respectively.

ZEPPELIN VISITS ENGLAND."

INDIGNATION OF CUP FINAL CROWD.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"

LONDON, April 26. The Gral Zepplin left Fried, richshaven at dawn, passed over Paris at noon and appeared over Wembly Stadium, fying very low, in the middle of the Cup final. Many spectators fearing that play would be interfered with shouted and booed indignantly. The Graft Zepplin arrived at Cardington at 5.14 p.m. and left for Germany at :6.52. p.m.

THE AGE.

approximately 10.45 p.m. and thus set a new mark for the crossing.

Roosevelt Field, April 20.-Com-

FLIGHT FROM NEW YORK TO pleting a record-breaking fight

ARABIA PLANNED.

[UNITED PRESS.]

across the United States, Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh swooped down upon Roosevelt Field at 11.11 o'clock after having covered the distance from Glendale, Cal., in 14hr. 45min. 328ec

Mrs Lindbergh As Navigator.

HUGE FIRE IN JAPAN,

FIRTEEN THOUSAND

HOMELESS.

(UNITED PRESS. ). Tokyo, April 18-Two hundred and cight houses were burnt down at Mombetsu, yesterday, making 15,000 homeless, according to & message from Hokkaido.

City of Akita-in north Japan also suffered from fire on the same day, more than a hundred houses having been wiped out.

UNEMPLOYMENT EVIL IN JAPAN.

OVER TWO MILLION SAID TO BE OUT OF WORK.

[UNITED FEESS.)

Tokyo, April 18.-The most out- standing question and the source of the nation's trouble is the un-

employment issue. According to recent investigations conducted by the labour-exchange throughout the country amounts to some two mil-

lion.

MARINES KILLED IN NICARAGUA.

OUTBREAK BY NATIONAL GUARDSMEN.

[UNITED PRESS.]

Washington, April 19-Lient.... Very Dart of Nashville, Tenn., and Sergt. James Young, both of the US Marines were killed in This was almost three hours Nicaragua when National Guards- under the non-stop record set by Capt. Frank M. Hawks, who fewmed for some unexplained reason

Hollywood, April 18.Richard Halliburton, a professional ad- venturer who has displayed marked ability to coin his exploits iato profitable magazine articles and books, announced to-day that he intends to fly from New York Lockheed Vega-monoplane from overpowered: a sentry and turned

to Arabia by way of Paris.pa

A

o medalnegun on the offers, quar=" tera,

Roosevelt Field to Los Angeles and return starting at 6.21 a.m. on June

Both those killed were members 27 of last year and returned to of the officers' guard. Long Island at 1.16 a.m. on June 29 including his reat and refuelling on the West Coast.

Plans for the project are bearly complets, he said. The date has not yet been settled for the start.

Mr. Halliburton's most recent venture was a swim through the Panama Canal, with the purpose of Colonel Lindbergh handled the writing a book about the fest. Ob- controls while his wife acted as servers who gathered for the start navigator, They flew most of the with the idea that they were to way at altitudes around 10.000 feet witness, an almost superhuman ox- in order to test the feasibility of

shion of sadura

ormarcial causes in the under ed to discover that Mr. Halliburton air, where high-velocity winds pre- stopped for the day after a few vails and great speed can be made. miles progress, buoyed the point- Thousands packed the field for the where he stopped, and thereafter arrival and police had difficulty in completed the swim over several restraining the throngs from dark weeks by progressing a short dising out in the path of the low-wing Colonel Lindburgh's Lord Birkenhead has returned to tance each day and taking up his monoplane,. England He is staying at his trip next morning from the pre new ship, which necessarily lands at

vious halting-point.

fairly high speed. country house.

LORD BIRKENHEAD RETURNS HOME..

THROUGH RETIRE'S ADENOT.]

Loxnds, April 98.

**THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER."

RECOGNIZED AS NATIONAL ANTHEM OF-U.S.

[UNITED PRESS.] Washington, April 21.The lower house of Congress this afternoon adopted a proposed law recognising "The Star Spangled Banner" 45 the national anthem. The vote on the bill was unanimous.:

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

FRIEDRICHSHATEN, April 97. The Graf Zeppelin returned here this morning.

FORMER SHANGHAI »

COUNCIL MEMBER,

DEATH OF MR. V. G. LYMAN,

Mr. V. G. Lyman, a former pro- minent American, member of the Shanghai Municipal Council, has died at the age of 63, Mr. V. G. Lyman retired from the post of assistant manager of the Standard Oil Co. of New York in 1927.

The Canton military authorities are taking very severe measures to deal with the robbers. A gunboat with troops on board has been dispatched to the scene of the tragedy to co-operate with the garrison troops there.

B.AT. LOAN DENIED.

(Wan Tez Tat Fan.)

PEPING, April 27. The British-American Tobacco Company has addressed letters to the various newspapers denying the report that the Company has made a loan to the Naaking regime.

IN NANKING AND SHANGHAI."

*(ah Taz Yat Pao.)

NANKING, April 27. Acting on the information "that Communista will start a riot in the National Capital on Labour Day (May 1), the Central Government has instructed the Garrison Head- quarters and the police authorities to ban the assembly of workers, Special precautionary measures are being taken at West Gate where the magazine is situated.

Precautionary measmes

have been taken in Chinese territory.in Shanghai, and the authorities of the foreign concessions are also taking precautions.

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