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CHANGSHA REDS.

APPARENTLY MAKING FOR

KIANGSI."

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

PEIFING, August 4 The Communists still have their machine-gun nests in the northern part of Changsha, but their main body has moved towards the east and taken Liuyang.

Apparently they are making for Kiangsi rather than marching on Hankow,

RECAPTURE OF CHANGSHA IMMINENT.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, August 4. Foreign reports state that Gen- eral Ho Chien's troops near Chang. sha have reoccupied the island on which the foreign settlement is

situated, and that they are prepar. ing to cross to the native city.

(Wah To: Yat Pao.): Hunan Troops Attack Changsha, HANKOW, August 4. The Hurinese troops, under Governor Ho Chien, about 7,000 in number, are attacking the Com- muaiste at Changsha.

Co-operating with them are the gunboats Yungshing and Hsien- ning.

Changsha Recaptured.

LATER

It is understood that. Ho Chien's troops have recaptured Changsha, and that the Communists are re treating in two directions towards Pinglia and Siangyin.

Communist Menace at Hankow.

In view of the Communist menace, the authorities at Hankow are taking vigorous measures for safe- guarding peace and order in the three cities of Wihan. ·

General Ho Ying Ching is in full charge of the maintenance of peace and order at Hankow,. General

ALLIED ARMIES' TASK IN SHANTUNG.

CONFIDENT OF DRIVING

OUT INVADERS.

(TBROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

PEIFINO, August 4. The Northern leaders are bitterly commenting on the fact that a large part of the force landed at Tsing to is Hunanese while Huaan is being overrun with Communists.

The allies, however, feel coa-

fident that they can drive out the invaders, as they state that Han Fu Chu's troops have already joined them, and others have surrender- ed, while they claim that Ein Chen Nien has definitely thrown in his fot with the North and has sent troops who participated in the cap- ture of Tsingehow and Weihsien..

Fighting is reported to be going on between the Shansi troops and the remnants of Han Fu Chu's forces at Changling.

TIENTSIN-PUKOW FRONT.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1930.

WANG CHING WEI'S UPPER SIND FLOOD

CONFERENCES.

VISITS TO YEN HSI SHAN AND FENG YU HSIANG.

(THROUGË REVTER'S AGENCY.)

PEIFING, August 4 Wang Ching Wei left Peiping on a visit to Chih Chino. Huang last night, accompanied by other poli ticians.

After a meeting with Yen Hsi Shan, the party will proceed to the South for a conference with Feng Yu Hsiang.

THE LOAD LINE CONFERENCE.

CONVENTION SIGNED BY 27 NATIONS.

UNIFORM RULES.

The International Load Line Conference, which opened in Lon- don on May 20, concluded -ita NANKING FORCES READY TO sitting recently, when an Inter

ADVANCE.

(Wah Te Tai Pav).

SHANGHAI, August 4. There has been a fresh develop- ment of the military situation on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway frert.

The Government troops have pushed forward and are now ready to advance on Tsipao.

The Shansi troops have sustain-

ed heavy casualties, and their posi tion is reported to be most un. favourable.:

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national Load Line Convention was adopted and signed unanimous- ly by the representatives of the following 27 Governments:-

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Australia, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, Ger many, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, India, Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nor way, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and the United States of America..

The President of the Conference, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry of the Convention, and in the

F. Oliver, "proposed the adoption

PERIL.

QUETTA COMMUNICATION

IMPOSSIBLE.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}

KARACHI, August 4. The food peril in the Upper Sind is unabated.

Two hundred square miles are submerged, and the canal has been breached.

The "water is rushing towards

Aurangabad, and the railway be tween Habikot and Buk is moment arily expected to be washed away.

Communication with Quetta is impossible within a month.

There have been several cases of looting, and lawlessness in the flood- ed areas.

DUCHESS OF YORK'S BIRTHDAY.

SIGNIFICANT GATHERING' AT GLAMIS CASTLE.

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{THROUGH"REUTKE'S AGENOT.}

LONDON, August 4.0 The Duchess of York's thirtieth birthday to-day is being spent quietly at Glamis Castle, where Sir Henry Simson, the famous obstetric surgeon, arrived yesterday.

Sir Henry Simson was one of the consultant surgeons who were pre- sent at the birth of Princess Eliza

beth.

The Home Secretary, Mr. J. R. Clydes, has received an intimation to be present at Glamis Castle to morrow.

There have been a large number GERMAN ELECTION

of casualties resulting from J Hindu-Moslem fracas at, Sukkur, where axes and knives were freely used.

TEXTILE STRIKE IN FRANCE.

100,000 WORKERS AFFECTED.

(THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY»!

LILLE, August 3. The executive of the Textile Workers' Trade Union has decided to call a strike to-morrow for in creased wages and as a protest against the workers' contribution under the National Insurance Act.

About 100,000 workers are in- volved.

Some of them might feel dis- appointed that upon some parti cular points their own particular views had not prevailed, but they their discussions with the utmost had met one another throughout

CAMPAIGN.

SUBORDINATION OF SMALL:

*ISSUES.

EFFECT OF THE RECENT STAFF REDUCTIONS.

Berlin, July 9-The extraordi nary importance of the forthcoming general elections and the serious- ness of the political and economic situation are daily becoming more evident in the absence from the election campaign of the mass of small issues usually forming a large part of electioneering specches and articles in the party Press.

In this respect, two highly symp- tomatic and important events oc- carred to-day, one being a warp. ing issued by the leaders of the Democratic Party, and the other Clerical Centre Party to the Social

LOCUST PEST AND PLAGUE tions of the British Load Line Corakness They had, as the pre-memorandum submitted to the

AT KAIFENG,

(Wah Ts Fat Pao).

SHANGHAI, August 1.

Kaifeng, the provincial capital of Honan, is now suffering from a pest of locusts which has done con-

course of an address summarizing the results of the Conference said that the rules and recommenda.

mitter, 1927-1999, which were ac depted as a basis for discussion, had been examined by the members in detail in the light of experi- ence gained in loading, navigating, and operating ships all over the world, in differing circumstances, and in all seasons of the year. The result of this examination was em bodied in the rules for determining the maximum load lines of mer chant ships that were included in presented the unanimous opinion presentatives attending the Confer

ROUND EUROPE AIR RACE.

RESULT OF TECHNICAL TESTS.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

with 319

BERLIN, August 4. Captain Broad (Gipsy Moth) is- still ahead as the result of the technical tests hitherto held in the round Europe air race points. The German Morzik (BFW). who won last year's race, is second with 315 points, and Posa (Klemm) is third with 317 points.

AUGUST THE FOURTH

THOUSANDS SUFFERING

TORTURES OF HELL.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, August 4. To-day, the sixteenth anniversary of Great Britain's entry into the Great War, Sir, Frederick Milner, President of the Ex-Services' Wel- fare Society, appeals for contribu- tions to the Society, which helps mentally disabled and neurasthenics among ex-servicemen.

Captain Broad obtained 27 points." in the test flight over 30 kilo metres, in which the competitors Sir Frederick Milner points out had to use the least petrol possible. that "in our midst there are ap- He used 35.04 kilogrammes, com- próximately 100,000 szilors and pared with the Germans 22,38 and soldiers suffering the tortures, of 92.78, "respectively, who were hell as the result of war service."

awarded the maximum of 30 points.

The landing tests over 30-foot abstacles take place to-day.

ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE.

EFFECTS OF IMPROVED

RELATIONS.

HOW GREATER PROGRESS

COULD BE MADE.

Mr. Saul G. Bron, chairman of the Russian Trade Delegation in England, in a statement issued in London last month said:-

The resumption of diplomatie relations between the U.S.S.R. and Great Britain, which coincided

the foreign trade of the U.S.S.R., with the radical réorganisation of the resumption of normal trading relations, the establishment of em bassies in the capitals of both coun- tries, and finally the signing of

| PRINCE OF WALES TO VISIT" THE ARGENTINE.

BRITISH EMPIRE INDUSTRIES FAIR NEXT YEAR:

[REUTER'S "AMERICAN BARVICE.]

BUENOS AIRES, August 3 The British Ambassador has in formed President Irigoyen, that the Prince of Wales will attend the opening of the British Empire Industries Fair in the Argentine

in 1931.

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CONDITIONS BETTER IN ITALY."

RELIEF FOR EARTHQUAKE

VICTIMS.

Rome, July 29.-Latest reports. from the earthquake region indie- ate that the work of clearing the thanks to the heroic efforts of the débris is now progressing rapidly, military as well as of the civilian and Red Cross workers.

The chief of the Italian Red

Chien Ta Chun that of Wachang siderable damage to the rice crops, the Convention, and those rules re- That Convention did not establish Centre Party, they will have do Soviet financial year in a large Food supplies are now said to be

and General Ho Kno Kuang of Напурля.

The populace of Wuhan Have be- come Idas apprehensive.

Fortifications have been erected at Fangtaze against the possible threat to Wuhan by the Communist forces from Changsħa.

Damage to Foreign Property. Mr. Li Fong, who was dispatch- ed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to investigate the damage to foreign property by the Com-1) munists at Changsha, has arrived here. He is leaving very shortly for Changsha.

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Foreign Residents' Losses.

NANKING, August 4. In an interview with Press re- presentatives, Dr. C. T. Wang, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated that foreign residente at Changsha have sustained but insignificant

and the populace has appealed for

help.

Plague is now prevalent between Kaifeng and Chengchow. The Red Cross are actively engaged fighting the scourge.

ENDS.

WHEEL TYRE PUNCTURE CAUSES CRASH,

[REUTER'S AMERİCAN BERVICE.)

of the technical and nautical re-

ence.

As regards the first, the warn the provisional trade agreement, ing" which was signed by the two have changed the attitude of the party leaders, Dr. Kaas and Hess, bluntly declares that if the Social financial and industrial circles in Democrats do not alter their atti- Moscow towards trade with Great tude of unrelenting opposition to Britain, and this has materialised the Chancellor, Dr. Bruening, who himself is a member of the Clerical during the last nine months of the without that. party's help in the extension of the trade turnover Prussian Government coalition and between both countries. Diet. Since the stability of re-

. Russian Orders for Britain, publicanism in Germany is general- ly believed to rest, mainly on its

During the period from October key-position in Prussia, and since 1, 1928, up to the end of June, 1930, the coalition of the Left and Centre, the Soviet trading organisations, comprising the Social Democrats, including co-operative societies, the Democrats and the Clerical have placed orders in Great Bri- Centre Party, in Prussia commands tain for more than £14,000,000, as but a small majority, the threat, if seriously meant, has a great deal against £6,100,000 in the same of weight and danger bebind it, period of the preceding year. The particularly as Mr. Hess is the growth of Boviet purchases in this leader of the Centre Party in the country has affected to a consider

able extent the products of en- Prussian Diet.

gineering, electrical, chemical," and Wage Cuts and Dismissals. other branches of British 'industry which are engaged in the manu- The memorandum of the Federa facture of plant and equipment of tion of Employees, on the other various kinds. During the above- hand, was caused by the fact that mentioned period the orders plac- political circles connected with the ed in Great Britain for different so-called bourgeois parties view kinds of of machinery reached with some concern the action of a £6,500,000, as against £2,000,000 in gumber of leading firmus especially the preceding year, in the metal and electrical indus-

Soviet orders for different raw

Cross, the Duchess of Costa, des- pite the continued intense heat and remotest hamlets in an endeavour her delicate health is visiting the

to bring comfort to the victims. adequate. Everywhere temporary camps have been erected for the homeless, being filled with a mót- - ley gathering of rich and poor alike, all settling now down to the daily routine work necessitated by the situation.

King who presented 100,000 lire to the relief fund Premier "Mussolini who has been working day and night will now leave for the stricken area in order to supervise the relief work personally.

With the return to Rome of the

U.S. PRESIDENT DEFENDS

COMMISSIONS.

BEST BRAINS OF COUNTRY TO

SOLVE PROBLEMS.

Washington, July 9-Unmoved by the numerous criticisms which have recently been launched at the

Administration's policy of appoint- ing many commissions of investi gation, President Hoover to-day the country" were needed to in."

declared that the best brains of

sident of the Conference of 1999 Government by the Federation of saich, pooled their knowledge and Employees in connection with the tested it by the experience of all,

threatened dismissal of a very large and they must all realize how much number of workers by some of the more could be accomplished by joint leading industrial undertakings. action to attain the object for which they had all been working--the pro motion of safety of life and property at sea. At the closing session of the Conference of 1929. Senator fio, in an eloquent speech, referred to the Convention that was then adopted as a great charter" international standards first loading limits for merchant ships generally. It had been their aim International Experience.

and purpose to complete the work in the spirit that actuated the In the same way they had ex- Conference of 1929; and if, as he amined the experience gained by hoped and believed, they had ac- the nations who had for many years complished that aim, they would in been loading their timber-carrying the two Conventions have indeed a ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT special conditions. The Conference the world on a basis of safety such shipe and their tankers under national overses carrying trade of had embodied the conclusions at as had never hitherto been attain- which they bad arrived in the ed rules for these types of ships which At the conclusion of the Confer appeared in the Convention. For eice the President of the Board of both classes they were" satisfied on Trade said that six weeks ago it both technical grounds and in the

was his privilege to welcome the light of the experience of years members at the beginning of their that deeper loading to the extent work, and it was now his pleasant prescribed was fully justified, sub- duty to congratulate them on its HARBOUR GRACE, August 3. ject to the conditions they had laid conclusion. The task before them The monoplane in which Mr. John down.

was to draw up uniform leading Mears and Mr. Henry Brown are They had made provision for rules which should be binding on attempting a record round the special types of ships possessing the ships of all nations in all the world fight crashed when taking constructional features, similar to sens of the world, and that task off from here to-day. B

those of the tankers, which afforded they had accomplished. It was not The plane started in darkness extra invulnerability against the

an easy matter to determine the tries in closing the opening of the aided only by flares. It was mov- sea. In general the rules, as the right point to which ships of dif- electoral campaign for a move to materials such as rubber, metals, ing rapidly when one of the tyres Conference had framed them, pro- ferent size and strength and build enforce wage eats and wholesale fertilisers, and various articles of of the landing wheels punctured vided for increases of freeboards should be allowed, under different dismissals. The example get by food such as sugar, which after and the plane swung round at a in the winter months, particularly conditions, to load; but it was im- the firm of Siemens which served the break in 1927 were diverted to losses.

tangent. It crashed into some trees in the smaller classes of ships, and perative that it should be done, for notices of dismissal on 7,000 em- other countries, are now to a sub- The Ministry has received no pro-and was smashed to pieces.

they defined in detail, and with far if they loaded ships too deeply ployees, or 10 per cent. of the en- stantial extent placed in this coun-vestigate pressing problems and find Both Brown and Mears escaped greater precision than any rules there was the risk of damage and tire number of its Berlin staff, was try tests from the Powers, except

now in existence, the methods to

The improvement in the political danger, whereas, on the other hand, during the last few days followed Japan.

be employed to secure the effective if they compelled skips to load by the German General Electric and trading relations between the closing of openings in the weather too lightly they shut out cargo (AEG), the Bergmann electric Soviet Union and this country has decks and in the sides of the ships, which could safely be carried and works, the Borsig machine works not only resulted in an expansion and for the protection of the croy, thereby added to the cost of every

and a number of other prominent of trade, but has changed" the The Conference had carefully excommodity carried by sea.

German firms who set the trade Soviet attitude in regard to the amined and revised the Zones and

unions before the alternative either utilisation of British shipping, Board of Trade Opinion. Seasonal Areas that regulated the

of agreeing by midday on Thurs. In the current navigation period To determine what the right rint day next to wage cuts or facing the which began in May, the Soviet loading limits of all ships,-"_

should be, an enormous amount of dismissal of a considerable portion trading organisations have char- New and Existing Ships. work had been done and experience of their employees.

tered a far greater number of Eng- They had, Si Henry proceeded, gained, in this and other countries.. It is understood that the trade lish ships; and between 65 per cent applied the new rules-in full to all They had been able to avail them- unions are resolved to oppose any and 75 per cent of all freights which new ships--that was, to ships the selves of this experience, and they-wage cuts as they declare that the will be paid during the current keels of which were laid on and had had with them leading experts present wages are the minimam navigation period up to February, after July 1, 1832. They had im from all the principal maritime needed by the workers to make 1931, will go to British shipowners. posed on all existing ships, which nations of the world. They had both ends meet. The same is being It is also of importance to know were not brought voluntarily under worked hard and had produced a argued in the memorandum of the that several agreements are at pre- the now rules, the rules of 1906, eet of rules which were a marked Federation of Employees which is sent being negotiated to secure the subject to the condition that, in advance on anything which had the strongest organization of its technical co-operation of British addition, they complied, so far as preceded them. He was glad to kind in Germany and traditionally firms in constructing new factories

German and American firmis was reasonable and practicable, think that these would not only very moderate in its economic de in the U..8.. which will act as with the conditions laid down in lead to great justice as between mands as well as in its political in important stimulus for a fur- which, with the active support of their banks, have gone very far to regard to new ships for the effective ship and ship and nation and principles..

ther extension of trade between closing of openings in the weather nation, but to even greater atten-

meet foreign requirements with re- both countries,

gard to finance, have established decks and in the sides of the ship, tion being paid to the safety of the

Trade and the Banks,

themselves firmly on many mar. and for the protection of the ships and of those who sailed in The Federation, however, thought

kets, the Soviet market not being crew, then. No one pretended that the that it was urgent to call the at The Soviet organisations are now

an exception.

M From the administrative point of work was perfect, or that it was the tention of the Government to the negotiating with many leading view, each aation ratifying the final link in the chain of develop dangers involved in the action of English steel, and irom firms, If Anglo-Boviet trade similar to that By creating & financial basis for Convention would be bound to take ment. They themselves expressly the industrialists as, apart from the question a financial basis for which was successfully applied in all auch steps as might be necessary provided for the modification of the effect on the national finances Anglo-Soviet trade and strengthen-a number of great and small coun to make effective the load fines pre- their rules as further knowledge which such dismissals would haveing thereby the competitive power tries in Europe in their trade with

thousands moss on the

British folosielajtson the NB.Ed which proY (CEE band, each nation would accept an they did not overrate the work done already International Lord Line Certificate here they must not underrate it. If the pnemployment insurance, it is tioned very often by leading Engingent guarantee, and bank. issued, in accordance with the pro was a great thing that they had inferred that it may tend to accenfish industrialists and financiers Eco-operation, the competitive visions of the Convention, by the done, to establish for the first tuate the movement of the electors nation to which the ship belonged, uniform loading rules, which means to the radical extremists on both that the lack of a strong financial as having the same force as the uniform safety rules, for all the wings, a development which would background has greatly handicap certificates issued by them to their cargo ships of the world. He very further delay the stabilization of english industry in her fight beartily congratulated them on its the political and economic life of Continued at foot of next column.) own ships

(Continued on next Column.)

Dr. Wang added that, the Gov- ernment has spared no pains to

unhurt, however.

afford full protection to foreign ESPERANTO CONFERENCE

residents in China, and it is not expected that any untoward inci- LINK BETWEEN WORKERS. IN dents will arise..

EAST AND WEST...

(THROUGH AKUTER'R AGENOZ.]

Foreigners Eyaciate Kanchang,

KIUKLANG, August 4. ~ With the exception of two or three missionaries, all foreign resi- dents at Nanchang (the provincial capital of Kiangai) have evacuated in view of the menace by the Reds under Chu Tak and Mo Chak Tung, numbering over 20,000. 10.

Nanchang is defended by 8,000 Kinngai troops under Chang Fai Chan,

The populace has wired Nanking for reinforcements.

Trenches are being dug outside the city.

The populace are. apprehensive. as it is reported that, the Reds are nearing the city.

MISS GERTRUDE RUGG SAFE

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, August 4. The China Inland Mission learns

that Miss Gertrude Rugg, who was cut off in an adjacent village when

the Reds captured Changsha, is safe at Slangtan, 20 miles south of Changsha..

LONDON, August 3, Esperanto as a means of bridg ing the gulf between the workers of the East and West was advocated by Mr. Hu Yus Tse, of Shanghai, when he spoke at the International Workers Esperanto Conference in London,

Mr. Hu declared that the great est barrier separating Chinese workers from the workers of the West was the question of language

The British Labour Party Artists' Club in Moscow sent messages to the 500, delegates, including various European contingents, and also Japanese and Chinese.

U.S. SCRAPS THREE BATTLESHIPS

· [REUTER'S - AMERICAN KLEVICE.}

WASHINGTON, August 3,

In accordance with the terms of the London Naval Treaty, the Navy Department, has decided to scrap the battleships Utah; Wyoming and Florida before. October 1, seving at least: $4,000,000 a year.

Warning of Danger,

barbed of the Tulog the other and captrictive Were gained and very meagre resources of Soviet market. It has been, menTM

accomplishment.

the nation.

for foreign markets.

solutions.

The Prezident pointed to the fact that the late ex-President Roosevelt, during his period as Chief Executive, created for com missions.

The late ex-President Taft created 63. The late ex-Pre- sident Wilson creactd 160, with 44 for the Harding administration.

Even

Com-

ex-President Coolidge, whose tactics in many ways are supposed to have been the opposite of those of Mr. Hoover, had a re- cord of having created 118 missions..

"Thus there is nothing new in the commission idea," Mr. Hoover declared, 'intimating that his policy. would continue as heretofore,

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power of British industrialists in the Soviet, market would be con- siderably strengthened and the Soviet purchases in this country amount of £40,000,000 to £50,000,000. could easily reach next year the