INDIAN SITUATION, REVIEWED.
GOVERNMENT REITERATES SYMPATHETIC POLICY.
MORE RIOTING: FURTHER ARRESTS.
In a review of the situation in the House of Commons by Mr. Wedgwood Benn, Secretary for lodia, a distinct' improvement is shown, but there still remain elements of danger, especially the campaign of malicious rumours instigated by Congress.
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Latest news brings to light further reports of rioting. in which many persons were injured. In spite of the reassuring statement in the House of Commons, the situation seems to be still fraught with uncertainty and danger.
"CONGRESS CAMPAIGN OF LIES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
in the tribal areas, he said that since the April disturbances, Pesha war had beeh quiet and normal LONDON, May 20, The situation in India was dis-life had been, or was being, resum- cussed in the House of Commons ed. Outside Peshawar, the centre this evening during a debate on the of disturbance was caused by a dea India Office Vote. The Secretary der called the Haji of Turangiai for India, Mr. Wedgwood Bera, said that despite newspaper head fines the vast majority of Indian people in the urban areas, and eertainly in the rural areas, pursu ed daily their avocations under the benevolence of settled and or dered Government.
It was true that the Government- al machine was designed by Eng- lish hands, but it was to-day main ly operated by Indian hands, nut only in positions of high contri, but almost exclusively in its sun. ordinate branches.
Dealing statistically with vore of the aspects of national hfe, he said few countries in the world in the matter of external trade could" give a better showing than India. In the last year of private trading. merchandise showed an available balance of £58,000,000 and in the four preceding years the trade bal.. ance was equally good.
As regards public expenditure, last year's Budget wiosed with a ba lance on the right side, and, al though it was found that on the basis of existing taxation there would be a deficiency, the Govern- ment of India, with the support of the Legislative Council, prescrited * Budget which would, at any rate balance and perhaps show a sur plus.
It would also maintain in the eyes of the world the solid financis: position in which India had always stood.
and his son, who settled themselves in a hill to the north-east of Fesha- WAT.. Action was taken against them and was proving effective.
On the whole, the tribal situa- tion had greatly improved. There had been no hostile movement of any tribe as a whole.
Mr. Bend extended his sympathy to the District Magistrates and officers of the local Governments and Government of India in their dificulties and dangers and said that in this matter, as in all others, there never had been between the Government and the Viceroy any thing but relations of the warmest understanding and strong support
Self-Government,
He looks forward to a day when Indian liberty should be enlarged and she should take her place as a full-self-governing dominion.
Within a very few weeks WC should have the Simon Report and the next stage was a conference to consider the question of constitu tional advance and the co-opera- tion of those who could speak au-
thoritatively for the opinion of British India and the Indian
States.
THE HONG KONG. DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1930.
£10,000 FOR GIRL
FLYER.
MUNIFICENT GIFT BY "DAILY MAU","
RECOGNITION OF EPIC
FEAT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 27, The Daily Mail has made a gift of £10,000 to Miss Amy Johnson in recognition of her feat in flying solo from England to Australia.
Another Lap Covered."
SYDNEY, May 27. "Miss Amy Johnson has arrived at Cloncurry in East Queensland en route, to Longreach.
On the 21st a crowd, estimated at 200, tried to force its way in. The attempts were foiled, thanks to the skill and endurance shown by the Police. The timely arrival of troops also bad a moral effect. their presence giving much needed relief to the Police.
Congress' Policy.
On the 22nd the Police cleared a
Congress camp of volunteers and the position is now quiet, although there are reports that the attempt will shortly be renewed. Congress continue their policy of disseminat ing deliberately. false reports and
rumours, and every efforts is being made by Congress by means of pro- pagando to stimulate anti-Govern- ment and racial feeling.
TENSE SITUATION
M
IN RANGOON.
WORLD ENGINEERS' CONFERENCE.
JAPANESE DELEGATES FOR BERLIN.
Tokyo, May 27, One hundred and ten of Japan's greatest engineers will leave Tokyo and Osaka to-morrow for Berlin, where they will attend the Second World Power Conference, to be held from June 13 to 20.
The Japanese engineers
will
POLICE FIRE ON RIOTERS.
HEAVY CASUALTIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
RANGOON, May 27. There were several serious colli- sions this morning between Indiana and Burmans. Military police
NORTHERN GAINS REPORTED
20,000 PRISONERS CAPTURED.
ITBROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PEPINO, May 27.
The Third Army officially daims to have captured, on May 24, 20,000 of the Nanking forues,
FOREIGN WHARVES AT KONGMOON.
THREAT BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
A.P.C., SOCONY AND CANADIAN MISSION.
[rag OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, May 97.
Fighting 16 apparently proceeding The Kongmoon Municipal Govern in North Shantung in the vicinityment is greatly perturbed over the
travel by way of Siberia and Rus, opened fire and several Indians of Yucheng which both sides. claim wharves at Pakkai of the Standard
sia, and several of them are tenta- tively scheduled to give lectures on engineering to Soviet audiences en route.
The party will be headed by Vis count Kyoshiro Inouye, and will include such noted figures as Dr. Masao Kano, of Tokyo Imperial University, who was recently de- corated by the American Society of Engineers: Baron Chusaburo Shiba, and Dr. Masayoshi Tsutsumi, Presi- dent of the Osaka Polytechnical University.
The Japanese Navy will be repre- sented at the Conference by six technical experts, and the Imperial
were injured
All is quiet at present but the atmosphere is most tense.
The casualty Egures at midday were $90 treated in hospital as inpatients and 420 as outpatients. The exact number of dead cannot be ascer tained. The city is desolate, the mills are silent and the bazaars and shops are closed.
Only a few offices are open, the staffs working behind locked doors. Military police, British and Indian troops are stationed at danger. spots, and the police and special constabulary, consisting of Euro- pean civilian volunteers armed with rides, are patrolling the All the nurses and doctors have been requisitioned for special duty
in hospitals.
streeta
Government Railways by Mr. J.
Attacks on Chinese Coolles.
RANGOON, May 23. Matsunawa, head of the Research Bureau. The Communications Minis-
Ten people were killed and 230 The assurance given to minor-try is sending Mr. K. Inada, chief] ities by the Viceroy on May 13 con- of its Engineering Affairs Bureau, injured in communal rioting which tinued to receive their warm sp- and the Foreign Office will be re- broke out here to-day after brew Striking resented Chinese proval which is increasing in presented by the Commercial Ating over the week-end.
tachés of the Japanese Embassy at dock workers
loading ships and 1 serious out strength ns they appreciate the im-
Berlin. plication of the methods of mass
News has been received here that break occurred.
Burmese, armed with lethal wea- action as now practised by Con-
the German Government will de- resa.
corate Baron Kimitake Furuichi and pens and led by priests with dag- recommend Baron Shiba for honor-gers, paraded through the streets ary life inembership in the Board hunting out Andhra coolies who Dr. Kamo, na vice-chairman of the conference, is to make a speech on of Trustees of the Munich Museum. they mercilessly belaboured.
the opening day.
The conviction is growing among the Mohammandang that the civil disobedience movement is opposed to their interest and security. La- bour is at present steady.
Land Forfeited.
DHABASANA, May 26.
On the grounds that it was be ing used for nonagricultural pur poscs, the Government has declared forfeited the land on which the Speaking of a statement of the Unitadi camp has been set up. This Viceroy, Mr. Benn said, "The po has been re-occupied by the Gand- licy stands. The goal is accepted hiites since the police action, on by all parties, but there are difMay, when they demolished the ficulties on the way to the goal. camp and took possession of the Those difficulties do not exist ex- elusively or mainly on this side; they are largely Indian difficulties, and it is from Indian opinion we must seek a solution. I make bold to say that if at this conference substantial agreements are reach- ed no Government will be likely to ignore its work."
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Last week the Government float ed a loan of £7,000,000 which was over-subscribed. The price of Indian securities on the London market was higher now, than it was, 00 January 1, despite all the events which had occurred in the mean-
For many years the two coun- time.
Although there was a large pulstries had been linked together for lie debt in India, eighty per cent the undoubted well-being of both. Was it too much to hope that bit- was represented by productive as-
terness "inight now be cast out so that the future might see a rebirth of mutual understanding and of
sets.
Railway Progress, Remarkable progress has been made with the electrification of million railways. Twenty-eight neres, or nearly thirteen per cent. ef the whole crop of India, had been brought under irrigation ata enst of £75,000,000. When schemes now under construction" were com pleted the total area under irriga tion would be nearly 40,000,000
. acres.
Regarding the trade and indus trial position generally during the last twenty years India's overseas trade had nearly doubled.
In
strength.
THE SITUATION REVIEWED.
DANGER OF MALICIOUS RUMOURS.
LONDON, May 20.
arca..
The police again raided the camp to-day, ejected the occupants and demolished the huts.
Police Fire on Mobs.
Boubar, May 26. The polle fired in the course of
After the conference the Japanese delegates will divide into seven parties which will tour Europe and study the latest engineering methods.
MOTOR CYCLING TROPHY.
to occupy. The Northerners claim that Fu Tse Yi has advanced from Yucheng to the bank of the Yellow River.
:
WET" SWATOW.
INCREASED WINE
ONE WAY OF DROWNING
LIFE'S LITTLE ILLS.
According to the Chinese Press, the amount of wine consumed by the people of Swatow has shown a
The pop considerable increase. wine, which represents over 50 per lace are especially fond of Ticatsin cent. of the potions consumed.
About 30 per cent, is locally-brewed wine, and 20 per cent. imported.
The total amount of wine con- sumed in Swatow is said to, be very large. According to statistics com- piled by the Taxation Bureau, there, over 130,000 jars of wine, valued at about $2,000,000, are imported from Tientsin alone every year. year, the consumption of wine has shown an increase, and since last month, over 30,000 jar of Tientsin wine have been imported.
This
Oil Company of New York, the Asiatic Petroleum Company and the Yan Tsai Hospital which is alliat- ed with the United Church of Canada. It considers that these wharves were built without a pro- per pertait, and they are therefore illegal and should be torn down. The foreign firms concerned have been notified that they must remove their wharves before June, and if they are not removed by that time, the Municipal authorities will tear them down whether their foreign The following is a free transla
the tion of the notification to foreign firms concerned:-
owners ce it or not.
Pakkai and its shore along the river are an integral part of Kong-
jurisdiction of the Municipality. moon and therefore come under the No person, foreign or Chinese, is allowed to encroach upon any part of the land or shore. It is true that the Sunning Railway has built its ter- several wharves close to special agreement with the Govern minus, but that was done through ment, but the arbitrary construction of wharres by the Standard Oil Company of New York, the Asiatic Petroleum Company. and the Caited Church of Canada at their respective waterfronts constitutes a ease of encroachment which cannot be tolerated. These foreign arms must tear down these wharves with- in this month. If this is not done within the time allotted, the Muni-
Clovernment, through Bureau of Public Works, will be The forced to do it for them. materials will be sold to compen-
A Chinese paper recalls i Dative proverb to the effect that a drop of wine relieves a thousand sorrows. Perhaps the people of Swatow are oficers so
distressed by the latter-day struggle for existence, that they have to resort to drinking to drowncipal their sorrows -
Two European Police were slightly injured in the dis turbance. The bazaars and shops Burmese newspaper are closed. offices have been attacked and ship. ping is at a standstill.
LATER
It is now estimated that 29 people were killed in yesterday's riots.
Hospital reports show that 276 indoor and 300 outdoor patients have been treated.
The casualties are mostly And. bras.
SINGAPORE RIDER IS FIRST trok
CASUALTY.
a conflict this evening with a crowd THE of Moslems in the Bhendi Bazaar Eight rioters (Moslem quarter). were sent to hospital with injuries.
LATER.
Twenty-one were injured by bal- leta, of whom two succumbed, in connection with the conflict with
Moslems in the Bhendi Bazaar.
The trouble was caused by, a European police sergeant chasing Mohammedan hooligan who ston- cd the former's dog.
The crowd stoned the sergeant and then the Police Station, where the police fred in self-defence. LATER.
British troops from Colaba Bar The Government of India's a- preciation of the situation up to racks are being rushed to the May 24 states that the tribal situa-Bhendi Bazaar, where the trouble tion in the North-West Frontier is apparently still smouldering.
Trouble Again Breaks Out. Province is definitely easier and the internal situation in the North-
BOMBAY, May 27,
agriculture the number of members West Province shows an improve- All is quiet at Bhendi Bazaar of co-operative credit Bocieties ment. The chief weapon of anti- had increased from 300,000 to Government agitators is now the this morning. The majority of the disseraination of false reports, but
3,500,000.
shops, however, remain closed. Those who rightly desire the up-pective steps are being taken to
Over 5,000 Moslems participated lift of the peasant or industrial counter these.
in yesterday's riots. Two of the worker should not overlook the It also gives further information injured have died in hospital.
(LATER. magnificent work carried on by regarding the riot at Mymensingh,
There has been a recrudescence Englishmen in co-operation with Bengal, on May 14 when a large Indians under present conditions hostile mob, failing in an attempt of trouble at Bandhi Bazaar. Seven rioters were wounded and traffic in India. In the last ten years to prevent the delivery of excise
The was held up for two hours. the more progress had been made in
liquor to vendors, attacked
situation was considerably eased at industrial legislation than in the Magistrate, Police, and excise staff midday when Moslem leaders visit- preceding fifty years.
with brick bata. Persuasions, Dealing with the development of warnings and charges by the Poed the district and pacified the crowd after the Police Commis
Burmese
The situation is now under con- Apart from those mentioned, it is estimated that a hundred re- ceived treatment elsewhere than in hospital. A few Anglo-Indians are CREAM OF RIDERS AND among those injured.
Damaging attacks on MACHINES,
newspaper offices, including that of The Sun, were made by Andhras.
The trouble originated through some Burmese coolies' reseatment at becoming unemployed, owing to the settlement of a recent shipping coalies strike, resulting in the Andhras resuming work.
(THROUGH DEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 27. Britain's predominance in motor- cycling will be keenly challenged in tourist trophy the forthcoming races over the tricky course, in the Iste or Man, There are unprece dented entries with the cream of riders and machines.
Practice is already in full-swing and there has been a casualty, Petrie from Singapore, who was bis found unconscious beside machine on that treacherous spot "windy corner.”-
Meanwhile manufacturers are ad vertising for a suitable road ou which to test a supercharged motor- cycle, developing nearly a hundred borse-power, specially designed to regain the world's two-wheel record recently achieved by the German Henne at 122 miles per hour.
H.M. INDISPOSED. SUFFERING FROM RHEU- MATISM,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Mäy 27.
"IMPORTANT PROHIBITION
RULING.
BUYER CANNOT BE ..
PROSECUTED.
KWANGSI'S CONTROL
REGAINED.
GOVERNMENT NOW HAS
ENTIRE CHARGE. NEW ADMINISTRATION TO
its
gate for the expenses thus incurred. The, Government is planuing to fix and beautify the entire waterfront and the removal of these wharves is nccessary."
MORE STUDENT TROUBLE IN CANTON,
PROFESSOR'S DISMISSAL.
DEMANDED.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
BEGIN ON JULY 1. Following the capture of Wang- haten, Wirgshün and other districts along the
River, opper West Brigadier General Li Chen Kau of
CANTON, May 27. the 59th Division entered Nanning,
Following the dismissal of twenty- the Kwangsi capital, on the 21st. Concillor Yang Ting Chung of the seven students for disobedience, the 8th Route Army has been appointed entire student body of the Kwang- Defence Commissioner and concur tung Institute of Technology is rently Director of the Bureau of again at loggerheads with the Public Safety at Nanning for the educational authorities. The stud- maintenance of peite, and order ents of the Institute proceeded ea there. General Lui Woon Yim, bloc to the Canton Kuomintang to Vice C.1.C. of the 8th Boute Army, solicis its help in their demand for has sent his men to take over the the unconditional reinstatement of their fellow students. They de various departments.
The flight of the Ironside Kwang-manded the dismissal of the Pro- si remnants to Hunan terminates fessor of Civil Engineering, Mr. the Kwangsi, war. There is hardly Chang Kong Yat, branding him as
The... any trace of rebel troops within the incompetent to teach them. province, where the garrison duties matter is being brought to the of the northern and western sectors attention of the Department of had been banded over to the local Education. militia at the time of the insur- WASHINGTON, May 28 gents evacuation. Since then, the One of the most important de- commandants of the local militia in cisions in the history of prohibi- various districts are reported "to Supreme have wired to General Lui Woon tion was made in the Court which ruled that a person Yim, Vice-C.I.C. of the 8th Route
REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
RUMANIAN PRINCE KILLED.
who buys bootleg liquor cannot, in Army, to send them regular troops. CRASH IN AEROPLANE NEAR ordinary circumstances, be prose-Practically, the whole of Kwangsi Province is now in the hands of cuted.
BUCHAREST.
[THROUGH 'REUTER'S AGENOX.)
BUCHAREST, May 28. Accompanied by the Princess, Prince Mircea Cantacuzene was
the loyal forces, who do not expect The Court, however, acceded to the request made by the State De to meet any opposition when taking partment in January and ruled over those cities, formerly occupied that buyers of bootleg liquor, who by the rebele. are aware that for its delivery! illegal transportation will be ne- With the conclusion of the mili-piloting an aeroplane when it rashed near Baneasa, aerodrome. cessary and who on trial plead tary situation, there now arises the The Prince was killed and the noll contendere, shall be liable to question of rehabilitation Con
Rehabilitation,
It is officially announced that the Prosecution on a charge of con- cillor Li Yi of the 8th, Route Army Princess slightly injured.
relations between the Homo Govern- lice failing to secure a dispersion xioner had promised the deputation King has for some days been sufferspiracy to violate the prohibition has been appointed. Pacifiention leaflets over the streets" of, the
dered to fire.
About forty Government servants were injured, and fifty-three rioters were treated in hospital. One of these died.
ment and the Government of India, of the mob, which continued its Mr. Benn pointed out the growth violent attacks, the. Police were or- of self-government in the British Commonwealth which had been car ried out in various forms. The Government of India was looking more and more for approval and support of the legislature and In- During the week under review dia's public opinion for a really there has been no serious outhbreak, effective and lasting growth of the bot in several places, the Police measure of self-government. The hav had to disperse a disorderly nilitary force in India consisted crowd.
of the Army, Air Force and Mari-
ne, and there had been no material
Sholapur Normal.
......
In Sholapur conditions are fast change in strength since it was re- becoming normal and it is hoped organised after the war
Proceeding, Mr. Bean alluded to that martial law may shortly be the recent disturbances which had discontinued.
Persistent efforts to spread hos | been confined to the urban dis- tricts and, generally speaking, tile propaganda in the Punjab con- tinue. Apparently the villages
held aloof The disturbances
to withdraw the military picketsing from painful though localized from the streets.
Theumatism in the right hip. · He
las.
The Prince had been dropping Commissioner of the Poseb and Lungchow region for the disband-capital setting forth the claims of
The rioting in the morning start has been advised not to attend U.S. AND NAVAL TREATY.ment and recruitment of the rebel ex-Crown Prince Carol
ed by a Moniem crowd stoning the courts to-night and to-morrow but police and military Artoed police hopes to be able to ful6) engage opened fire three times and a Euro-ments later in the week. It is pean police sergeast was accident learned that the trouble is ally shot in the arm.
IMPERIAL ECONOMİC
UNITY,
not
troops who were left behind by the main body of the Ironsides, and Kwangsi-ites, and some of whom were not willing to treat with the rebels. In order to prevent such disorganised remnants from becom coming guerrillas, it becomes neces sary to re-enlist these scattered
SPECIAL SESSION: OF "CONGRESS.
(ACUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICK]
WASHINGTON, May. 28. Congressional leaders have decid-elements.
T
U.S. SUPREME COURT.
JUDGE ROBERTS APPOINTED,
[UNITED PRESS.),
The total casualties in the riot serious and is not connected with inz in the Ehendi, Bazaar area till his recent illness. 4.30 p.m. to-day are four killed and 36 injured Twelve policemen were
ed that the London Naval Treaty According to Mr. Yang Yueo Washington, May 20-Without a also injured.
be left for consideration by the Kung, a member of the Kwangsi record vote, the Senate, to-day con- KRISHNAGAR, May 26,
special scasion of Congress.
Provincial Committee, General Lui firmed President Hoover's nomine The police fired after fruitless-
It is expected that Fresident Woon Yim, chairman of Kwangsi, tion of Mr. Owen J. Boberts to he using staves in order to disper "FAMILY FIRST OUTSIDERS Hoover will convene this for about has made all preparations, to or associate justice of the US. a crowd which gathered at Navtd-
NEXT.
the middle of June.
ganise on July 1 the Kwangsi Pro Supreme Court. He had received wip
vincial Government, and simultane the committée recommendation yes- Ganada Approves.. Police Restraint. e Restraint.
ously to inaugurate the depart terday. {THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCT,]
OTTAWA, May 20. SIX May 20 from which the Mohammedans had have been little affected, except, in "Far from acting with unneccë-
The House of Commons has un-nents of Civil Affairs and Finance, At no time had any genuine fight LONDON, May 23.
peading further instructions from against Mr. Roberts, a Philadelphia Gujerat, where the situation is sary vigour, the Police have shown
Fleas for Imperial economic unanimously approved the London the Central Government, relative to lawyer who won fame as a Govern
Naval Treaty..
-the- causing anxiety
marked restraint under conditions.
ity in preference to entering into The chief feature of the cam of the utmost difficulty.".... paign against the salt laws has been" This is a passage in a letter from European commitments were voiced In some recent resorting on the Barbato da tendit. 18t the Congress of the Empire
Chambers of Commerce ed by the Congress Working Com Presidency. Technical breaches of Nathkunzru, who recently resign- mittee at Allahabad, a proposal the law have been largely abandoned from the Assembly and accused was made that these disturbances ed in favour of mass action. These tho should be extended. So far the re- tactics definitely failed at Shiroda, brutice of perpetration of solutions had not been put into where raids have been abandoned. effective force and it was not the They achieved temporary success at intention of the Government that Wadala on May 18, hut a subseq. they should be permitted to be uent attempt failed. made effective.
might be described accurately
pasmodic rather than general.
Congresa Resolutions.
Referring to the position in the North-West Frontier Province and
5
The chief efforts of Congress had been made at Dharsana.
(Continued on at Colums.)
Police
Cotton Boycolt
In his presidential address, Lord" of a European Custom Union and said the Congress would devote the reagh referred to the possibility
bulk of the time to a discussion of BOMBAY, May 28 the aim of unifying the economie Apparently unofficially, ft basatructure of the British Empire. been decided among local Indian Lord Melchett enunciated the dog brokers not to deal with European trine of "Let the family come first firms in cotton futures,
2. Land outsiders next.....
ZEPPELIN RETURNS
PERNAMBUCO (THROGOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PERNAMBUCO, May 28. The Graf Zeppelin, which yester day flew to Rio de Janeiro and then set off again for Cuba, has returned.
e- appointments-of-departmentalment prosecutor in the famous "oil" commissioners and other officials. cases" of 1924 been in prospect, Prior to the inauguration of the The only word beard against him ajes Romain Grossman nevem certain archibition mat the civil affairs will, however, beers which sought to resurrect an takan charge by the Commander-in old speech by Mr Roberts which
wet": Chief, Chan Chai Tong, under they believed indicated a order of the State Council. For the present. General Lui Woon. Tim will submit a daily report by wire to the C.10. regarding the political movements in Kwangai for the latter's perusal and approval Caston New Agency..
leaning, but this was not pressed:
Administration quarters, anxious: because of the Senate's recent re lection of the nomination of Judge.
confirmation. J. J. Parker of North Carolina, expressed relief to day at the
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