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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930.
CHINA PREPARED
TO BUY C.E.R..
EASTERN NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Nanking telegram says that the gendarmes of Ching Haien, Anhui, mutinied on the evening of May 30 and, after breaking open
MAKING PREPARATIONS TO |PARS FROM EVERYWHERE. the city gaol, murdered a number
RAISE MONEY.
CHINESE DELEGATE AT MOSCOW,
LA
[UNITED PRESS.]
On May 31, another fight between the water police patrol boats and pirates occurred outside Woosung. records the Chinese Press. The fight lasted front about 9 to 10 a.m. during which time, over 30 pirates were killed and two of their junks
The Ministry of Education has ordered the" Kansu provincial authorities to pay special attention to the visit to that province of Sir E. Stein, an English archeologist, and to prevent him unearthing or carrying away antiques from that province, says the Chinese Press.
Moscow, May 27.-Dr. Mo Te Hui, head of the Chinese delega-werg, seized. tion, told the United Press to-day in exelusive interview that China is prepared to purchase the Chinese Eastern Railway from the Soviet Union. If the trend of discussions at the forthcoming con- ference warrants it," Dr. Mo said, I am ready to propose to buy. the Chinese Eastern Railway in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of 1934."
According to the Chinese Press, the City Governments of Nanking, The amount involved in such Shanghai, Ticatsin, Tsingtao, and a purchase is still not clear and Hankow have been placed under the is a question dependent on the direct control of the Administrative negotiations and the opinion of Yuan, while the City Government experts. However, Dr. Mo aid of Peping and Canton will be put that preparations are alrendy un-under the control of the Hopei and der way to raise the necessary Kwangtang Provincial money for the purchase from pure-
ments, respectively. ly domestic sources, as specified in the treaty...
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of persone, and carried off all the rifes of the District Government, They later lootech two towns outside the city. General Ma Fuh Hsiang. Chairman of the Anhui Provincial Gorerament, has ordered the Garri son Commissioner of Wuhu to send treeps to round ap the mutineers without delay, says the Chinese Press.
A Chinese husband's dislike for hobbed hair resulted in his wife attempting to commit suicide last week, reports the Shanghai Chinese "Press. It appeared that the woman had cut her hair on the previous day without first obtaining the When the husband's permission.
husband returned home he was very
annoyed. A quarrel arose and the husband left. The wife swallowed However. a quantity of opium another tenant of the house dis- covered this and took her to a hos- pital where she is lying in a critical condition..
Apropos of the native shipowners' protest against the repeated arrests af mercantile marine officers em- ployed on Chinese-owned vessels by the water police of the Greater Govern-Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety following minor shipping accidents, a reply has been new received from Colonel Yuan Liang, Commissioner. of Public Safety. This says that he has instructed his subordinates not to arrest mercantile marine
ents occur. but only to take the ofEcers when minor shipping accid names of the officers and vessels concerned, pending further investi- gations, so as not to interfere with the movement of ships.
A Ningpo junk which was seized and carried off by pirates at Woo-
its owner having paid $800 As ran. som. The seizure of the junk made by the pirates was most daring as it occurred in the vicinity of two Woosung witer police's cruising boats and under the very eyes of the Woosung Fort guards.
Dr. Mo emphasized the fact that he will be negotiating only as 1. plenipotentiary for the Nationalistung on May 19 has been released, Government in Nanking, which naturally must ratify decisions reached at the conference. He in- dicated that the basic problem be- fore the conference is the railway, enforcement of provisions of the treaty, administrative adjustments, and the redemption of the rail way by China.
Answering a question as to whe ther he would attempt to straigh- ten out Sino-Soviet diplomatic re- lations, Dr. Mo declared that the railway problem must come first. "Such a settlement," he continued, is a necessary condition before we can discuss larger problems."
The Chinese delegate described the Chinese Eastern Railway as now functioning smoothly and denied Press reports that Soviet officials. or troops had in way molested Chinese in Harbin
He said that
ho considered the most difficult problem was that of treating "White" Russians in China in s way satisfactory is, the Moscow Government. China, he added, is now making efforts to prevent Russian emigres from making trou ble for the Soviet Union, and ex- pects the Soviet to refrain from
Mr. A. H. Gordon, manager of Callender's Cable and Construction Co., Ltd., who was recalled recently to England on account of his wife's serious illnes, has just returned to
Mr. Diaz, neting Brazilian Consul General in Shanghai, is reported by the Chinese Press to have lodged a protest with the local Chinese authorities against the raid on a gambling house at 200, Connaught Road, Shanghai, owned by n Brazilian subject, by members of the Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Safety without first obtain- Shanghai viú Siberia. Mrs. Gordoning the permission of the Inter- national Settlement authorities. In is undergoing treatment in Switzer- reply, the Chinese Press says, the land, where she is likely to be for Mayor of Greater Shanghai con- some considerably time, accom- tends that the house in question is situated outside the Settlement and panied by her daughter.
that it was unnecessary for the Nantao Police to obtain the Settle ment authorities' permission.
The trial rum of the super exar press trains between Toxyo and Kobe will be conducted sometime at the beginning of July, probably or 4 enye the Japan July 3 thronicle. For the purpose of testing, the effect on the physical
condition and fatigue of passengers on such trains the railways will
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