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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1930.

LOANS TO CHIANG KUOMINTANG ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN

KAI SHEK

PLENARY SESSION.

SIGNIFICANT WARNING" TO NANKING PREFERABLE TO

WOULD-BE LENDERS.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]|

campaign.

SHANGHAI, July 14.

PEIPING

(Wah Te Fat Pac.)

FLIERS.

'PLANE CRASHES ON MOUNTAIN RANGE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

PEPINO, July 14.

RANGOON, July 13. In the course of a statement

In an interview with foreign

A message from Prome states issued' to-day, Chu Ao Hsiang, said Pressmen, Mr. Chen Kung Po, a

that Matthews, one of the airmen that, according to Shanghai ad- prominent member of the Extrem in the 'plane, which, crashed while vices, Chiang Ka Shek had in-ists of the Kuomintang, made the attempting a fight from England structed Mr. T. V. Soong to raise | following statement:—

to Australia, was picked up by villagers on $10,000,000 from the Native "Bank-

the slopes of the The meeting held here yesterday ers' Association to finance his is simply a ceremony for the enArakanyoma Range on which the

larged Plenary Session of the Cen-plane crashed.

Matthews, together with his com- Any loan made by Chinese bank-tral Executive Committee of the ers to Chiang Kai Shek at this Kuomintaög. All questions regard.panion, Hook, had been walking. "time would be considered a criminal ing the Kuomintang will not be for seven days following the course.

act and liable to punishment in the settled until Mr. Wang Ching Wei of a stream., future, Chu Ao` Hsiang, declared, arrives at Peiping. Mr. Wang will' Hook finally became exhausted pointing out that Yen Hai Shan hyd deal with only Party affairs, and and was unable to walk. He was repeatedly warned Chinese mer-will not involve himself in the left a day's march behind, and chants not to assist Chiang Kai Shek formation of the proposed Provi- search parties have now been financially. "Loans made before sional Government. Yen Hei Shan, despatched to find him. - such warnings might be excusable and he investigated impartially with the view to protecting pri- vate interests" and maintaining the tranquillity of the financial market, but loans made in defiance of these warnings would not be recognised under any circumstances, and the lenders would be held strictly responsible for the consequences of

their own acts"

NANKING TROOPS CAPTURE

NINGYANG

(Wah Ta Yat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, July 14. "Chen Tiao Yuan's Nanking troopa captored Ningyang yesterday.

General Fu Tso Y, the com- mander of the Shansi troops on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, is report- ed to have been severely wounded.

KUOMINCHUN COMMANDER KILLED BY A BOMB.

(Wah Tai Tat Poo.)

HANKOW, July 14,

in the opinion of the speaker, should be the Chairman of the Government.

Asked whether the future govern ment will remain in Peiping after the Nanking regime is overthrown, Mr. Caren said that he would say that Nanking is more preferable than Peiping, as Nanking is the centre of economical and political

affairs of the country.

EMPIRE FREE TRADE.

ARRANGEMENTS TO BENE- FIT WORKING CLASS.

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE]

LATER."

than Matthews when their aero- Hook was injured more severely.

plane crashed, which was due to a leak in a petrol pipe..

supply of food and water, and both The aviators Ead only a small

were suffering from malaria.

but this was difficult owing to the Matthews tried to carry. Hook. nature of the ground.

They

stumbled on for days in wretched weather, sleeping in hunters huts and bamboo clumps. Finally, Mat- thens pushed on, leaving Hook, at his own.request, with villagers and staggered into Prome at the end of his tether.

Prome is 161 miles north-east of Rangoon.

LATER," Matthews is ill at Prome, and he is being medically attended for exposure and exhaustion, RUGBY, July 13.

There is no news of Hook, for "An important reference to Em-accompanied by a doctor,

whom the police and villagers, pire Free Trade was made by the searching. Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay Mac

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Donald, when he delivered speech at the Crystal Palace last night.

Mr. MacDonald emphasised that the advocates of Empire Free According to the Central Daily Trade had no authority from the Neurs, Sura Liang Cheng, a pro-Dominions to engage in the present minent Kuominchun commander, propaganda. was recently killed at Yehchikang by a bomb dropped by a Nanking aeroplane.

BANDITS ON PEIPING- TIENTSIN RAILWAY,

(Wah Tes Fat Pao).

"PEIPING, July, 14. Bandits along the railway be- tween here, and Tientsin have be- come very active.

There was not a single Dominion but was developing on nationalist lines its own industrial and econo mic evolution, and no Government, whatever its majority may be in this country, could force on the Dominions an economic policy in which the Domihions did not be. lieve.

Labour's Chance of Agreement with Dominions. Dealing with the implication that the Labour Government had no in- The Railway Bureau is consider-terest in the Dominions and no in

fluence upon Dominion opinion, he ing their suppression.

said: "Against that I believe that Armoured cara are patrolling the if the Dominions are going to come railway to afford adequate protec-in with us in economic co-opera- tion to passenger trains, and in- tion, if the Dominions and our- structions have been circulated to the authorities of the districts * along the railway route to take precautionary measures against any untoward occurrence on the rail-

way.

WORLD'S FIRST RAILWAY.

CENTENARY CELEBRATION.

[RITISH WIRELESS SERVICE),

LONDON, July 13.- The centenary of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail- way, which was the world's first successful commercial locomotive railway in the modern sense of the term, will be celebrated at Liver- pool in September, and arrange- ments have been made to make the celebrations worthy of the unique occasion.

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According to Matthews, the aero. plane crashed on "a bamboo chump while they were trying to fly over. the Yoma mountains. The airmen slid down to the ground without machine was hopelessly wrecked. being seriously injured, but the

The airmen followed the course their food. was steadily dwindling. of the Buyo River for a week, but Hook was so ill on the seventh day that he was unable to ·∙stand They decided that their only chance try to find help. He was at the was for Matthews to push on and end of his tether when he stumbled across a party of villagers, who brought him into Prome.

AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN.

LABOUR'S ENCOURAGE- MENT, TO FARMERS.

BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGEY, July 13. Earl De La Warr, Parliamentary selves are to devise an economic Secretary to the Ministry of and industrial policy which will Agriculture, speaking at Mold be beneficial to all of us, then the yesterday, said Dr. Addison, Minis- Labour Government has a better ter of Agriculture, intended to chance of bringing about that place the development of agricu agreement than a Government of ture. rural education and research any other party in this country. in the forefront of his policy. The "In the Imperial Conference in Government, he added, was consid September we are going to do every. oring the possibility of giving to thing that can be dono, by the Bri- the majority of farmers encourage- tish Government to come to econo- ment in producing a given commood- mic arrangements with the ity and the right to form an or Dourinions that will benefit the working classes, of this country.”.

ANGLO-EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS.

FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER APPOINTED TO LONDON,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}"

Quino, July 13, Hafezafô. Pasha, the Foreign been appointed. Minister, has

Abdel Fattah becomes Foreign Egyptian Minister to London.

Minister..

Although during its trial runs The Premier, Sidky Pashe, inter- in 1830 the speed attained by the viewed by Renter, said it was not train drawn by the steam engine the immediate aim of the new "Rocket" did not reach 18 miles Minister to resume the interrupted an hour when running light, within Anglo-Egyptian negotiations, but one week of the inauguration of the Government-would-doubtless the service it was traveling at 30 choose the earliest opportunity for railes hourly

burly over the Liverpool their famation fo Manchester track.

In connection with the Septem

ber celebrations, which are being

organised by the City of Liverpool

and Manchester, with the co-opera-

tion of the British Railwayi, x**

EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT

7. ADJOURNED.

Okino, July 13,

pageant depicting the evolution of A Royal Decree has been issued transport will be performed in i adjourning Parliament for three which 5,000 men will take part.

weeks.

the

ganisation for controlling marketing of that commodity with, power to bring in recalcitrant minorities

This would entail formulating a scheme for submission to Parlia- ment through the Ministry of Agriculture and satisfying them that the scheme represented the view of the bulk of produce and that the rights of minorities of consumers had been considered. Although they did not envisage taking power to enforce the scheme of organisa- tion upon industry, they did envis- age giving to industry the power to organise, itself.

· GREEK” GENERAL SENTENCED.

IRREGULAR TRANSACTIONS

WITH ARMY

THROUGH LEUTZE'S AGENCY,]

ATHENS, July 19. The special commission appoint- ed to try General Pangalos has sentenced him to two years' imm prisonment for transactions in con- nection with the supply of cloth to the Army.

INDIAN VICEROY'S STATEMENT.

CONGRESS' ATTITUDE. REMAINS UNCHANGED.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BOMBAY, July 13.. Vallalhai Patel, Acting President of the Congress, in the course of a statement, expressed the opiafon that there was nothing in the Viceroy's statement justifying the slightest changs in the Congress, attitude, and he did not doubt but that the delegates to the Round Table Conference would in due time be disillusioned.

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INDIAN SITUATION SERIOUS.

"A MELANCHOLY THING."

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

RUGBY, July 13.

In the course of a speech dem livered at the Crystal Palace "last night, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, said the state of India to-day was serious. What was happening was only adding to India's difficulties and was not ad- Pancing India's chance of reach- ing Dominion status.

"Men with whom we wish to co- operate have had to be arrested for.

actions which, if they themselves

had been responsible for purely In- dian Government faced with the

S.S. TJIKANDI ASHORE.

BETWEEN SHANGHAI AND

-FOOCHOW-

ITBROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, July 14. The Dutch steamer Tikandi,

NANKING'S ARMY.

NEW GERMAN - MILITARY ADVISER.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,

BERLIN, July 13. The Press states that General

Wetzell, who recently retired, an en "route to Batavia from Dairen, officer with long Staff experience,

here.

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BOXER INDEMNITY.

BRITISH SHARE UNDER DISCUSSION.

(Web Ter For Pao.)

SHANGRAI, July 14.

Dr. C. T. Wang is discussing the question of the British share of the Boxer Indemnity with a repres

is ashore between Shanghai and has accepted service with the Chisentative of the British Legation. Foochow, about 240 miles from nese National Government, and Dr. Wang has telegraphed to Sir has gone to Chian, where, appar Miles Lampson, the British Minis- The vessel carried no passengers.ently, he will succeed Lieut. Colonelter, inviting him to A tug is being despatched to the Kriebel as Military. Adviser to the to discuss the matter. scene from Shanghai to-morrow, Nanking Government.

CALCUTTA SWEEP STORIES.

MEN WHO DUPLICATE THEIR WINS.

WINDFALL THAT CAME TO AN ACTRESS.

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Major. H. Hobbs recently pub lished a volume on the romance of the Calcutta sweep, which is full of racy stories, illustrating the truth of the negro speaker's dictum,

There is, for instance, the case of the ship's captain Blossom, He won first prize in the sweep, and on the way to England with the

money won another £3,000 in the

Hamburg lottery.

But for a sequence of luak no... thing has beaten the record of a captain once of the Indian cavalry. Home on leave in 1910, he drew

THIRD TEST MATCH: Lemberg, then in the sweep pro-

WICKET WATERLOGGED: NO PLAY BEFORE LUNCH.

(THROCOH HEUTER'S AGENCY.?

LEEDS, July 14. There was no play before runch,

LATER

After three hours heavy rain, the pitch became waterlogged, the water creeping in under the all covers protecting the ends,!!

An Inspection of the wicket

Torde at 2 p.m.

moted, by his club drew Lemberg again. While driving to the rape,

COMMUNAL RIOTING IN BENGAL.

LOOTING AND INCEN- DIARISM.

come South

SIR MILES LAMPSON,

(a Ti Tat Pad.)

PEIPING, July 14. Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister, has proceeded to Peitaho to spend the summer there.

BRITISH KINEMA FILM MERGER.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AJENOT.)

MYMENSINGH (Bengal) July 13. Nine Hindus were killed in the course of communal rioting. cd a number of houses in the TO MAKE, PRINT, AND RENT

Mohammedans on Saturday loot.

Kishoreganj division.

Extensive looting and incen- diarism continue, in spite of fring by the police, circle,

One officer has been injured, Twenty-five men of the Frontier Rifles arrived last night, and an-

other body is following.

CHAMPION LENDER.

£7,000,000 OWING, DOES NOT WORRY.

in a sovereign sweep got up in the 200,000 PEOPLE ON HIS BOOKS, four-in-hand, he again drew Lemi-

berg. The Indian Army Baw him

Lo more.

Man Who Spoke too Soon. Few love romances are woven round the winners, says the author, but he gives one.

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A girl. engaged to an acting-serance Corporation of Chicago, which geant in the Governor', band told lenda money to working-class fami- her mistress, with the result that Hes under the provisions of what the man wag warned that if he is known as the Uniform Small married without permission Le Loan Law.

Despite the enormous amount of would be returned to his unit as a private. The marriage was post-money that his corporation has out- poned, and the girl obtained standing, Mr. Harbison is probab-. situation in Annam. There they one of the least worried men in "bought a ticket, won 98.000 rupees, London.

and after the Armistice married the man' she loved.

OWN PICTURES.

The film merger, by which it is intended to bring International Talking Screen Productions, Ltd., British Screen Productions, Ltd., Automatic. Film Printing, Ltd.,

British

Filmcraft Productions, Ltd., and the Argosy Film Com pany, into a single enterprise to be called Argosy Filmcraft, Ltd. is going through, according to a státe- ment made by Captain G. J. Ban- feld, the director of British Film craft Productions.

Captain Banfeld claimed that the amalgamation would be the only

A man who is the head of an or-enterprise in the film industry which ganisation in America which has would be able to make, print, and 250,000 persons, owing it about distribute its cwn films; it would £7,000,000, is staying in London... be quite self-sufficient."

He is Mr. Leslie C. Herbisor, The shareholders' meeting wa President of the Household Fin- held on April 30, and us, soon vás the merger became an established fact the work on a film entitled "The Lure," with Margaret Ban- nerman, Pat Aherne, and Kenneth McLagen in the cast started almost immediately as the first production of the amalgamated companies.

Captain Banfield, who, incidental- ly, was the first film director to visit Hollywood with the object of study. ing the talkic" industry at first hand, said that proxies represent- ing the necessary three-quarters of the shareholders in each of the com- ponent companies were already held in favour of amalgamation.

***The amalgamation is a foregone conclusion. We are out to make British pictures," said Captain Banfield. "We hope to succeed. Top-liners on contraét include Mar garet Bannerman, Sir John Martin Harvey, and Matheson Lang. The Worton Hall Studios, Jeleworth, the British Filmcraft studios at Walthamstow, and a film-printing factory and a distribution centre in Wardour, Street are controlled by the companies concerned in the proposed merger.

"The number of defaulters who horrow money from us is practical In 1918 a planter's assistant re-ly negligible," said. Mr. Harbison. conditions such as those they have England saying that his horse

ceived a cable from a relative in My experience is that small bor- created recently, would have com-

Cragranour had won. He proposed rowers almost invariably pay back pelled the arrest of people respon-to a girl, and then called on his if they are really in need of money. sible for the conditions.

chief and told him exactly what he

Lend to the Wife. thought of him.

"The whole of this is a melancho ly thing which is unnecessary and foolish. Men who are going to be Governors of Se and responsible for the Administration ought to look ahead and understand the con- ditions under which alone adminis- tration and change are possible."

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WHEAT PRICES IN "AMERICA.

PRICE BELOW COST OF

PRODUCTION.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN, BEEVICE.]

WASHINGTON, July 13, ⠀ Senator Capper, of Kansas, in advocating the purchase of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat by the Federal Farm Board, in order to stabilise the wheat prices, intends to appeal to President Hoover in consequence of the Board's refusal to do so."

The scheme in effect would put a bounty on exported whent.

Senator Capper says that no sane man can argue that wheat can be profitably raised at the price of 60 cents per bushe

A number of the leading Middle West Benators are likely to sup “port Benztor Capper,

The Farm Board has: angered the Western Staber by dumping 300,000 bushels which the Government bought last year at 81.15 on the "Kansas City Market at 78 cents..

Mr. Alexander Legge, Chairman of the Board, has further strained relations by calling, Kansas the "biggest hog lying in the trough," and by telling those who demanded his resignation to go to hell,'

What his relative failed to do

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We make friends of our borrow

to inform him later that ers by lending them money when Craganour had been disqualified. they most need it and they rarely Poor fellow He had touched the fail us. In the case of a married cup with his lips, but the nectar receded from him. He walked to man we usually pay the loan direct the Ganges and threw hiraself in." to the man's wife. That is a great

Major Hobbs believes that sudden good fortune breeds meanness and tells stories to prove it!

safeguard.

"The maximum amount we lend A box of cigars has stood as an

is £60 and we charge interest at emblem of gratitude more than the rate of 24 per cent. per month once, for Brown, of the Alliance on the actual number of days the Bank, after the Sweep had closed money is lent. We hays 120 branch and at a special favour, parted offices in 12 States and more than with one of his tickets to a com- 200.000 barrowers are constantly on parative stranger. It drew Trout our books." beck, and the lucky winner seat. Brown a box of weeds which, hike the ticket cost 10 rupees.

And another man, winner of a £60,000 prize, never mentioned it to his typist who had worked for him for years..

Actress's Windfall.

Loan for Divorce... People borrow to pay for such things at operations, dental treat education, divorce costs and all ment, clothing, insurance and

sorts of emergencies.

Among unusual applications was that of a woman who had had her

One of the best stories is the fof-husband arrested for beating her. She relented and applied to the lowing:

Corporation for money to pay his fine, and get him out of gnol...

The authorised capital of Inter- nasional Talking Screen Produé- tions, Ltd., is £850,000, the capital of British Screen Productions, Ltd..

·ia £250,000, the capital authorised and issued of British Filmcraft Pro- ductions, Ltd., £125,000, £230,000, Film Printing, Ltd., £10,000, held privately held, and of. Automatio

by British Screen productions, Ltd.

In 1920, the year Spion Kop won the Derby, N. Chisholm, of the Na tional Bank of India, met a young actress at dinner, who was lament: ing the fact that she had neglected DRAMA OF THE FUR COAT. defrauded the German capitel of

to buy a ticket for the sweep, be fore leaving for England

Chisholm said he had three tickets and that if he had any lurk she should have half,

...

MAYOR OF BERLIN DISMISSED.

Herr Boess, who has already to give up the offending fur coat which be had obtained at a price far below its true value from the Brothers Sklarek, the millionaire clothiers, who are accused of having,

£1,500,000-will, in addition, pay the beavy coats of the proceedings. Duty Neglected.

The court found that Herr Boess,

-She gave him her address in Lon- The last act in the tragedy of in accepting the fur coat for his don and within a week of her arthat historic garment, the fur coat wife from the Brothers Sklarek, rival there she received his cheque of Frau Bocss, the Lady Mayoress had acted in a manner unworthy. for £30,000, half of the prize he had Balt enacted recently of the high dignity of the position

when special editions of the news he hold.

won

Luck laughs at figurts, days the piperralhomeed waitingHe had further neglected - ther author, rather more loudly than croads that Herr Boess, the Lord duties of his office in not super- financial love laughs at blacksmiths. The Mayor of Berlin, had been sen- vising mufficiently the winning numbers in the big sweeps tenced to instant dismissal from transactions of the city on the Derby and the St. Leger in his office and to forfeit a third of The long record of the lord 1927, were obtained by the same his persion.

mayor's service with the city was, member of the Calcutta Turf Club,

however, taken into account, and Mr. G. W. J. Levien. What the

the court refrained from cancelling odd, were against such a double

his pension entirely, allowing him would run into millions,

to enjoy two-thirds of it.

This sentence does not, however, complete the discomfiture of the chief of Berlin's city fathers

(Continued on next Colúmn.)