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TIENTSIN CUSTOMS

SEIZURE.

QUESTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

[TEROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.)

ASCOT.

ROYAL HUNT CUP.

HONG

KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1930.

INDIA'S TRIBAL

TROUBLE.

WON BY MACNAB.

N.W. FRONTIER® SITUATION STABILISED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, June 18.

The race for the Royal Hurt Cup,

CHINA'S WAR.

SHANSI TROOPS ENTER TSINANFU.

'(tunocon BeytaR'S AGENCY.]

U.S. WAR EQUIPMENT ENGLAND WINS FIRST

FOR RUSSIA.

SHIPMENTS BANNED.

(REOTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

WASHINGTON, June 19.

TEST MATCH.

CHAPMAN MAINTAINS HIS UNBEATEN

RECORD.

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LONDON, June 17.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

LONDON, June 17, The situation in India is re-

SHANGHAI, June 18. Chinese agencies last night re-

It has been revealed that the United States Government bas

WONDERFUL FINISH TO A GREAT STRUGGLE.

In the House of Commons, Sir run at Asent, resulted as follows:viewed in an appreciation issued ported the entry of Shansi troops adopted a policy of banning ship.

Dennis Herbert, Conservative

M.P. for Watford, drew attention

to the happenings at Tientsin in

MacNib

Grand Idol" Lion Hearted Twenty-two

ran.

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Won by

connexion "with the Customs dis-length; with half a length separat pute, and to the report that Mr.)ing second and third.

a

by the Government of India- for

into Tsinanfu.

Foreign circles do not confirm ments of war equipment to Russia

the week ending June 14, which this, but they state that the Shansi on the groand that diplomatic rela-

states that the" situation in the North-West Frontier Province has been stabilised.

Hayley Bell, the Commissioner, The betting was:-100 to 7 ägst. had taken refuge in the British | MacÑab; 29 to 1 agst.. Grand Idol ; | scrupulously Consulate.

and 10 to 1 agst, Lion Hearted.

Mr. Hugh Dalton, Under Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs, said the Press accounts of ANTI-PIRACY POLICE

Mr. Lenox Simpson's appointment had been officially confirmed, and enquiries were being made in con- nexion with the matter,

"CRISIS IS OVER."

(THROUGH REUTZE'S AGENCY.]

TIENTSIN, June 18.

There have been no further de velopments in the Customs situa. tion, and Mr. Lenox Simpson con- tinues to hold 'the office, and work proceeded normally to-day.

All the receipts are being turned over to the Bank of Communica tions.

Mr. Simpson, interviewed, stated that he believed that the crisis is over, but should an order be re- ceived from Shanghai for the evacuation of the staff every means possible would be used to prevent

GUARDS.

th

The whole tribal trouble was un- engineered from Peshawar by emissaries conducting anti-British propaganda by means of baskets full of bloodstained clothing, procured from local but

chere.

The appreciation also states that when raiding Afridis were bembed

troops are closing in on Tsinanfu from all sides,

tions between the United States and Russia do not exist.

Twenty bombing aeroplanes re- Fighting is definitely reported to have taken place at Pingyin, Chang-cently ordered would not be des tsing and Feicheng, as well as in patched therefore, but the Govern the vicinity of Chowtsun, while meat would not object to the ship- Shansi cavalry raided Tawenkow, ment of commercial aircraft. pulling up the rails and cutting.

communications. «

On the Peping-Hankow Railway front, the Nanking troops are re ported by foreign sources to have

TO COST SHIPPING COM by the Royal Air Force 80 of their retreated towards Kioshan.

PANIES $80,000 YEARLY.

(THROUGH REUTER'S LOKNOT.)

LONDON, June 17. In the House of Commons to-

day, in reply to a question, Mr. C. G. Ammon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, said the substitution of police for mili. tary guards on merchant ships in Chinese waters would cost about 880,000 yearly.

Mr. Ammon added that the cost would be borne by the shipping companies

such an occurrence. In the mean- MALTA SITUATION. time, he claims, the Customs or ganisation has not been seriously affected.

number were killed and over 100 wounded

(Wah Te Fat Fao).

PEPING, June 18. Yen Hsi Shan arrived at Shib-.

There has been a lull in Con-YEN AND FENG TO CONFER. gress activity and enthusiasm, and there are signs in some parts of the country of misgivings regard- ing the sims and methods of Con- gress among many who at first wero inclined to view the civil disobedi ence campaign with toleration if

He has decided to proceed to not approval. The active opposi- Chengchow to discuss military tick of those who frankly disap-affairs with Feng Yu Hsiang. prove is steadily increasing.

EVASION OF LAND TAX.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

AFMEDABAD, June '18.

Reports from the villages in Gujerat indicate that a campaign to refuse to pay the land tax has began.

The peasants, warsed by drum beats of the approach of the re- venue officers,, lock up their houses

Should any trouble arise it will UNDER CONSIDERATION BY and aide in the fields, returning to

not originate from our side. It is intended to carry on the Customs work peacefully and with the prim- ary intention of diverting the re- venues from the Nanting coffers,"

The new Commissionar reiterated that adequate appropriations will be made for the payment of the foreign loans, and he stated that he hopes to win the fullest confidence of both the staff and the public generally.

NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT

PASS RESOLUTION.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HOME GOVERNMENT.

THROUGH REUTER'S “AGENCY.]

their Houses at night.

chiachwang yesterday.

GENERAL CHEN TSAI TONG. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

"

CANTON, June 18. General Chen Tsai Tong and his staff are reported to have arrived in Lokchang, close to the northern border of Kwangtung.

The party left Canten last Sun- day morning by train, and they are expected to reach Hengchow, where the main bulk of the Cantonese forces are concentrating, in the course of the next few days.

Fighting Expected at Liling. According to an official communi: qué from Hunan," the "Ironsides ** evacuated Changsha yesterday, fol- lowing their defeat in Yochow

Changsha is now in the hands of the Nanking troops,

Alleged Government Oppression," [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE!

RUGBY, June 17. LONDON, June 17.

The Government of India issues Asked in the House of Commons an appreciation of the situation in whether he was in a position to India for the week ending June 14. give any further information re

It is stated that the Afridi situa- garding the situation in Malta, tion overshadowed everything else Dr. Drummond Shiels, Under- during the week, and at one time Secretary of State for the Colonies, events threatened to assume a very said that owing to the state of serious complexion. public feeling in the Island the A lashkar, led by Said Badshahing at this point. elections were still being held in and other prominent Mullabs, was abeyance by the Governor, in ex-known to have formed some three weeks ago near the western end of ercise of his reserved powers.

Khajuri Plain...

The question of what further measure should be taken to deal with the situation was under con sideration by the British Govern- ment

SHANGHAI, June 18. A message from Nanking states that the Central Political Conseil to-day discussed the seizure of the Tientsin Customs, and passed a resolution (1) that a declaration should be issued by the National GRIMSBY TRAWLER Government denouncing the seizure; and (2) that the Foreign Ministry should approach Sir Miles Lampson with request that Mr. Lenox Simpson be punished.

Dr. C. T. Wang visited the high Custoras officials this afternoon and discussed ways and means for making a declaration to the Powers regarding the Tientain Customma crisis.

BANDIT SUPPRESSION

CAMPAIGN.

GUNBOATS, SINK PIRATE BOATS

SHELLED.

tions with standards collected in Subsequently, further concentra

slowly towards the Peshawar Dis- Upper Bara and began to move

trict Border. By June 4 the lash- kar had reached a point about 15 miles west of Bara Fort

It is reported that the intention. was to hold Jirga with the Khalil and Mohmand tribes of the district with a view to combined resistance to alleged Government oppression. Incitement to Revolt.

INCIDENT IN ICELAND WATERS.

On the night of June 4 the lash- kar entered the Peshawar District, (BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

and numerous gangs, some of them Ruday, June 17. numbering several hundreds. pene In the House of Commons, atrated Khalil and Mohmand question was asked whether the villages up La the cantonment Foreign Office had received any boundary. report" of the firing of four or five Khalila and Mohmands were in- shells by a Danish gurboat on a cited to revolt and attack, the can- Grimsby trawler on May 25, in tomment but they refused, a large Teeland waters.

part of the lashkar appears there. upon to have retired westwards to- wards the hills.

MA Hugh Dalton, Under Secretary of State for Foreign [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

Affairs, replied that the attention of the Foreign Secretary had been CANTON, June 18. The bandit suppression campaign called to this incident, and he in the Chungshan district is meet would certainly make representa

tions to the Danish Government if ing with considerable auccess.

The fleet of small gunboats, while he found the circumstances war-troyed on the Peshawer-Bara Road. comhing the unfrequented tribut-ranted such a course. The matter aries of the West River, suddenly was under consideration. met a big gang of bandits in the vicinity of Sba Kok Tsui. A hot engagement at once followed, last- ing several hours.

Numerous gangs, however. Le- mained scattered through Khalil and Mohmand country and in the gardens south of Peshawar City. Trees were felled and culverts des

E.A.F. Inflict Heavy Casualties. On the morning of June 5 parties retiring across the Khajuri Plain REPARATIONS LOAN, were bombed from the air and the Royal Air Force are reported to have inflicted heavy casualties,............ Simultaneously, a movable column marched out of Peshawar to clear the country between the Bara and Kchat Road.

Thebandits,several bundred strong, were well entrenched in their lairs. They were nearly all BRITISH SHARE APPLIED ex-soldiers and were well armed.

TO DEBT REDUCTION.' But in spite of all this they could not, withstand the guns from the

[DRITISH WILKESS SERVICE.] gunboats and soon had to retreat. The marines then landed and gave

RUGBY, June 17. chase. The bandits scattered and

In the House of Commons, Mr. soon disappeared in the mountains.

Some 25 qutlaws were killed in P. Snowden, Chancellor of the Ex- action and a larger number were chequer, stated, in reply to a ques- wounded.

tion, that the British share of the "Next morning the gunboats con- proceeds of the issue of the Ger- tinued discharging their duties, but man Reparations Loan would be in another direction. When they applied to debt reduction. He was arrived in Tsin Tan, they sighted not at present able to say definite- two bandit boats. The pirates ly the precise form in which it was manning them were ordered to to be applied. He hoped to an-

nounce details in a few days, stop. Not only did they pay no attention whatever to this order, but they even steamed ahead at

full speed, 'n an effort to get away. EGYPTIAN CABINET

ened of, when we reped

In the course of the running fight

both pirate ships were struck and SUPPORTED BY CHAMBER. *pak

Over a docen pirates wore drown ed, but the rest made good their escape by rowing to the shore in small boats.

captured.

Large quantities of weapons were

{THROUGH_BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

The drive, was entirely successful and the troops are reported.to have inflicted severe casualties, operát ing over very difficult terrain.

Details of the losses suffered by the Government forces are not yet available, but a few casualties, as was inevitable in operations of this scrt, are reported to have oc- curred.

A careful search was conducted on. June 8. but it failed to discover Afridi stragglers in British terri- tory, and the entire lashkar ap- pears to have withdrawn from the district.

COAL MINERS? HOURS.

** {TRROUGESALUTER'S AGENCY,]

The rebel troops are retreating toward Liling in Kinngsi, where they will make a stand.

General Chen Taai Tong's men, three divisions strong, are converg

Fighting on a big scale at Liling is expected to take place soon, as

the Kwangsi- Ironside coalition is being hard pressed from both north and south.

Higher Command to

It is the plan of the Canton advance to the Yangtste Valley without delay.]

to help Nanking in its struggle with the Ferg-Yen alliance.

COMMUNISTS EVACUATE

TAYEH.

'(THROUGH RECTER'S "LOKNOT.]

HANKOW, June 18.

As the result of faids by Gov- ernment planes and gunboats, the Communists have evacuated Tayeb, and are retreating to the Yang- Hwangahibkong, and Shibhuiyao

haien area.

"It is claimed that bombs killed 100 Reds.

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There are at present no foreign- ers in Taych of Hwangshihkong.

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UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

NOTTINGHAM, June 17, England won the first Test by the margin of 03 runs, Australia being dismissed for 335 runs in their second innings, when they were set to get 499 for a win. Chapman, therefore, maintains his proud record of being an unbeaten Test Skipper."

PATSY HENDREN'S SOUVENIR.

PRIME MINISTËR CONVERSES unsuccessful, effort to

WITH PARTY LEADERS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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LONDON, June 17. After the Conference, Mr. Ram- Bay MacDonald, Prime Minister, had conversations with Mr. Stanley Paldwin, the Conservative leader, and Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal leader.

The

After Woodfull and Ponsford were out for a comparatively poor total, Don Bradman made a noble, though save Aus- tralia. It was a wonderful finish, the last Australia wicket falling an hour before closing time. It took Bradman 200 minutes to score his 131 runs, during the course of which he found the boundary ten times. He was the backbone of the side, and though his play lost its usual sparkle, he brought out a great variety of strokes from his bag. Victor Richardson had & merry time at the wicket and his 20 runs in- cluded six fours.

.

conversations

were held separately, and it is understood that unemployment was discussed.

Fairfax, was next man in, but he In connexion with Mr. Lloyd

was short-lived, being caught by George's offer of Liberal support Tate of Robins after he had only to the Government in an emer- gency campaign against`uzemploy- | collected 14 runs. ment, it is stated that Mr. Mac- Donald, while anxious to get what

ever

of the

co-operation is available, maintaine, the attitude that the executive responsibility Government must remain

There is good reason to believe that Mr. MacDonald is doubtful regarding the proposal that the Opposition should have access to the Civil Service and presumably official data

SIR H.. REMAINS

SEGRAVE'S CREMATED

SIMPLE CEREMONY..

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Rucay, June 17. who was killed after breaking the The body of Sir Henry Segrave,

motor-boat speed record on Lake Windermere, was cremated at Golder's Green Crematorium to- day

The funeral was of the simplest nature. The coffin, across which lus the Union Jack, was covered with wreaths. Some of these came from representatives of Colonial and and foreign Governments, there were tiny circlets of summer fewers from humble folk.

Lady Segrave decided that some of the wreaths should be placed on the Centotaph in Whitehall. Memorial cards bore such inscrip tions as "To a brave man," and "To a very courageous gentleman." A memorial service was held at West- St. Margaret's Church, minster, Canon Carnegie acist- ing.

General Trotter represented the Prince of Wales, and the Prime Minister was also represented.

SEGRAVE.

TSINGCHENG CAPTURED.

(Wah Tez Yat Pão.)

PEPING, June 187 ceived a wire from General Li Fu The local authorities have 1e- Ying of the Shansi troops saying A star there was that shot athwart that the right wing of the Shansi the sky, while the left wing has arrived at troops have captured Taingcheng Leaving the memory of a brilliant

flight; Pingyin. The wire adds that the So Thou hast shone, but, burning fall of Tsinan is expected at any

left Thy light.

moment.

HOUSE OF COMMONS WRANGLING.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON; June 18. The House of Commons was still

sitting at noon, and there was every likelihood of a continuance to a all-night session."

For us to guide our halting foot-

steps by.

JOHN WILLWYN

U.S. TARIFF BILL.

SIGNED BY PRESIDENT HOVER.

́(REUTER'S' AMERICAN" BERVICE]

WASHINGTON, June 17. President Hoover has signed the

During the past twenty hours there has been a wrangling discus- sion over two clauses of the Finance Bill, and Mr. P. Snowden, Chan-Tariff Bill. cellor of the Exchequer, insists that ten clauses must be debated before the House adjourns.

The Opposition strenuously op- posed a clause (which was even- tually carried substituting for an old statutory minute a statutory

The Final Debate.

(UNITED PREES.].

WASHINGTON, June 12, Although both voiced criticism of

The Australian

tail failed to wag and the remaining went out cheaply. batsman" all

" duck," Grimmett again made a thus getting the unenviable "pair of spectacles" in the match. "Mr. Extras" helped with 22 runs to bring the total to 335 runs.

Hendran Takes a Stump. As soon as the match was over, Patay Hendren pulled up a stump which he took, as a memento of a

great victory. The crowd then

scores were

Bowling Analysis.

Larwood Tate Robins Tyldesley Hammond

Woolley

0. M. R. W.

50.20

1

69 3

17.2 1 SI 3

35 10

90

...

3

In Retrospect.

77 3

In looking back over the match, one is inclined to hold the opinion that England had the greater part of whatever good luck there was going, in spite of the fact that her ill when he was urgently needed the wicket then promising to be most suitable to a bowler of his type, and the Australians fighting doggedly to avoid defent

fast bowler, Larwood, was stricken.

First of all, Chapman won the toss, and that, it must be admitted, is the most important factor in any match of such a nature. Then, after her earlier batsmen had collapsed hopelessly, Chapman and Hobbs batted superbly to put a stop to the threatened wholesale crash, and the team thereafter went on to compile 270 runs,

After the first day's play, rain fell in torrents all night long, making" the wicket most tricky, and giving all possible help to the bowlers The Australians went in to bat to and Maurice Tate bowling like one possessed and with the rest of the English bowlers keeping a good length, too. The "Aussies" were rapidly got rid of, with the excep tion of Kippax, who played a very plucky innings for 60 runs, not aut

When England went in for the

rushed to the pavilion, cheering wildly, and called for Chapman and second time, the wicket kept en Woodfull, who appeared on the improving, and England's opening. balcony, both of them wearing batsmen, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, smile the former a smile of victory batted superbly to figure in another and the latter a smile of perhaps century first-wicket partnership in having had the satisfactory of tak Test matches against Australia, ing part in a gallant battle. The The first piece of bad luck against.

the Old Country came perhaps when Sutcliffe was forced to retire (hurt) at the very moment when he looked like knocking up a century. From this point Australia appeared to favour have found

with Dime Fortune, for the next two English batsmen were given their marching orders before they had scored many

England:

ist innings 270

Australia:

1st innings 144

England, End Innings: 302. J. B. Hobbs, st. Oldfield, b

Grimmett...

74

H.W. Sutcliffe, retired hurt 59 W. R. Hammond, lib.w.; b

Grimmett .....

F. E. Woolley, b Wall

E. Hendren, e Richardson, b

Wall

A. P. F. Chapman, b Wall M. W. Tate, c Kippax,

Grimmett

24

5

R. W. V. Robins, b McCabe 4 H. Larwood, b Grimmett...... 7 R. Tyldesley, b Grimmets... G. Buckworth, not out 14

Extras

T. Wall

Total..

Bowling Analysis.

8.

*302

3

0. M. R. W.

26 4 - 67 A. Fairfax ....... 15' 4.58 0 C. V. Grimmett. 30 4 P.M."Hornibrook 11

94

4 35

5 0

S. McCabe.... 14 3 42. 1

Australia, 2nd, Innings: 335,

W. M, Woodfull, c Chapman,

b Larwood

W. H. Ponsford, b Tate

4

D. G. Bradman, b Robins......131 A. Kippax, c Hammond, b

Hobing

23

སྒྱུཀྑུ བྷུ ཎྜ ཊྛ ༤

S. McCabe, e sub., b Tate ... 49 VY. Richardson, Lb.w., b.

Tyldesleycumaines

29

A. Fairfax, o Robins, b Tate 14 W. A. Oldfeld, c Hammond,

b Tyldesleys

C. V. Grimmett, & Hammond,

"Tyldesley

P. M. Hornibrook, c Duck-

worth, b Robina.

T. Wall, not out

Extras

Total.

11

B

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The fact that Senator Reed con- ferred with Mr. Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury and Pennsylvania political leader, and ABHOURISMERE VIL MAN IS BRET

sentatives and foreign employees present President Hoover before" this

of foreign Governments would be GENEVA, June 18.exempted from income-tax, but the The Committee on the hours of concession does not apply to British work in roal mines have rejected employees. CAIRO, June 17.

by 27 votes to 18 the workers' pro. The Chamber has unanimously posal of a neten-hour day, passed & resolution supporting the Nahas Pasha Cabinet

The British Government delegate was one of three absentions.

LATER.

The House of Commons rose at 12:35-am after the adoption of the second clansa,

A Reed and Joseph R. Grundy of as an indication that the Presid Pennsylvania, whose attitude had cut will sign the bill in spite of been aloof, said to-day that they recent rumours to the contrary. felt it had been-improved since the House of Representatives first pass ed it and that they would vote for

accordingly... (Continued at foot of next column).

When Senator Grundy made known that he was to vote for the bill, passage seemed assured. Final debate is now proceeding in the Benaté

runs.

Enter Pat Hendren, and again fortune veered back to the home. team, for the dour Middlesex bats- man had determination written al over his face, and settled down to collect the runa good and fast. He got 72 before being caught by Richardson off Wall, and his cap tain supported him in the most able. maaner, himself collecting 29 be- fore getting out. Another change in the direction of Fortune's magic wand, and the rest of the England batsmen are out cheaply

Australian Bat Again: Woodtull Out Early.

Was

In the second innings, as in tho first, the Australians, lost their skipper early, who, repeating his mistake in the first knock, gave a chance to Chapman et alips and well taken by the English leader for the second time in the match. Ponsford and Bradman then got going, and here, the tourists were favoured with better luck, as these two batamen went about their business of getting runs in a most creditable manner. After Ponsford got out, McCabë and Kippax, in a lesser degree, carried on the good work, but that was their last effort, for in spite of the fact that Earwood was now out of the game, the other bowlers for England played their parts well, and when they were still 93 runs in arrear. Thus England" won the first of the five Tests-en excellent start to a difficult piece of work indeed.

It will be interesting to watch il there will be any changes in the teams when the second Test comes off..

U.S. SENATE ELECTION.

· REPUBLICAN WINNING.

NEWARK (New Jersey), June 18. From the-returns-hitherto avail able from the districts in Nex Jersey, Mr. Dwight Morrow (Re- publican) is winning an overwhelm ing victory in the primary election to the Senate.