HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1930.
BIRTH CONTROL.
TSINAN CAPTURED.
FIFTY MILLION .LOAN.
TOBACCO TAXATION
AT TIENTSIN.
SECURED ON CUSTOMS SURPLUS.
BRITISH CIGARETTE CO/5! REVOLUTION IN CHRISTIAN
FACTORY CLOSED.
MORALITY.
NORTHERN TROOPS IN
FLIGHT.
(THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.]
NANNING, August 15. An official communiqué states that the Government troops recap- tured Tsinan this morning,
The Northern troops are now Bee- ing to the north, leaving behind large quantities of ammunition,
Peng's Troops Badly Defeated. "On the Lunghai front Feng Yn Hsiang's left wing troops badly defeated by the Government troops early this morning.
were
The capture of Chengchow and Kaifeng is expected shortly."
Kweiteh Still in Nationalists' Hands,
NANKING, August 13. Headquarters announce that, the National forces are within two miles south of Tsinan.
are
They expected Tainan this afternoon,
to
enter
The report is confirmed in in- dependent sources that Kweiteh is still in the hands of the Nation- aliste.
The situation at Pochow is easier, although Sun Tien Ying is still vigorously attacking the city.
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REPUBLIC OF MONGOLIA.
BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA IN
CIRCULATION.
(Wah Tez Yat Pao).
re-
NASKING, August 15. The Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission recently ceived a report to the effect that the Government of Outer Mongolia has been incited by the Soviet Government to invade Chine Pro per and that Bolshevik propaganda was being circulated among the Mongolian people, who were being urged by the propagandists to sever all connection with China and establish a republican government of Mongolia.
· NATIONAL "REVENUE
READJUSTMENT. (gh To Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAL, August 13. A meeting for the discussion of readjusting the national revenues was held at the premises of the Central Bank of China.
Over
of
The meeting was attended by
twenty
representatives Kiangsu. Anhui, Kiangsi, Chekiang and Fukien, and was presided over by Mr. T. V. Soong, the Minister of Finance.
The decisions have been submit. ted to the Central Government for approval and execution.
- NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR
KIDNAPPED.
(Wah Tat Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, August 15. Hoang Reh Hui, the proprietor of the Times, a Chinese paper, was kidnapped by bandits this morning when he stepped out of his office.
DUKE OF NORTHUMBER LAND:
···GRAVE -ANXIETY FELT. {BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, August 14. A bulletin regarding the Duke of Northumberland states that in spite of a fair night his condition is unchanged. Grave anxiety is still felt.
Ap
DUCHESS OF YORK.
BEACON SIGNAL OF HAPPY EVENT.
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THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, August 15, The Government announce the
flotation of a $30,000,000 short-term domestic loan secured on the Cus- toms surplus, redeemable in May, 1933, and bearing interest of eight per cent. per annum, payable monthly.
It is stated that the money will go towards the stabilisation of the system and country's monetary general financial rehabilitation. ··
The State Council is appropriat- ing $100,000 for the relief of Chinese residents in Changsha,
SIR R. BORDEN.
CANADIAN DELEGATE TO" LEAGUE OF NATIONS. "
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
OTTAWA, August 14. The former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, P.C., G.C.LG., K.C., LL.D., has been appointed Canadian delegate to the League of Nations Council in succession to Mr. Raoul Dandurand, K:C.
CANADA CURTAILS
IMMIGRATION.
EXCURSION FROM EUROPE TO BE STOPPED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
OTTAWA, August 14 The new Government has de- cided, in view of the present an- employment in Canada, to curtail immigration from all countries.
The movement of immigrants from Europe will be stopped and assisted passage schemes aban- doned.
British would be settlers must have enough papital to maintain themselves for a reasonable period. British boys and girls will be eD- couraged to come to Canada and work on the farms, subject to the actual requirements of the pro-
vinces.
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BRITISH ARMY PROMOTION.
LT-COL NICHOLSON TO COM-
N
MAND SINGAPORE R.A.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
LONDON, August 14. The War Office announces that Major R. Nicholson, D.S.O., Royal Artillery, has been promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, and will. take up the Command of the Royal Artillery at Singapore in the Autiana.
LORD BIRKENHEAD'S CONDITION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 14. A bulletin issued this morning stated that Lord "Birkenhead had very little sleep last night, and consequently there is a slight in-
crease in weakness.
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The lung condition still remains satisfactory.
A second bulletin issued in the afternoon says that Lord Birken- head had had a quiet day, but his condition still remains serious.
INDEPENDENCE OF SOUTH
'AFRICA. RIGHT OF SECESSION TO BE MAINTAINED
{THROUGH REUTER'S "AGKKOY.]
{THROUGH XEUTER'S AGENCY.]
TIETSIN, August 15. - The closing of the British Cigar- ette Company's premises was com pleted yesterday and the work of all the departments was suspended.
Hitherto there has been no trou ble from the workmen, who, the Company state, understand that the situation is unavoidable, but the Chinese authorities stationed extra police in the vicinity of the com- pound to guard against any un toward incident.
The matter was telegraphically reported to Yer. Hsi Shan, but no reply has been received.
R.100 HOMEWARD BOUND.
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ESTABLISHING NEW ATLANTIC RECORD.
(BRITISH WIRELESS, SERVICE)
RuGay, August 14. Seven and three-quarter hours after leaving St. Huber's Air Port, Montreal, on her homeward flight, the airship R.100 passed over Anti- cosa Island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
The distance between Montreal
and Anticosti Island is 540 miles in a straight line, which makes the speed of the airship little under 70 miles an hour.
Eighty Miles An Hour. Later & message from R.100, how. aver, announced that the speed had been increased to 80 miles an hour.
The .weather conditions ATE favourable for a quick trip across the Atlantic. The Air Ministry states that the winds are testerly along the whole route. The average speed of the winds at 2,000 feet is about 20 to 30 miles per hour along the western half of the route and 50 miles along the eastern half. Some decrease is probable in this rate, but, nevertheless, following winds
of the journey. will be strongest in the latter part
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] -
LONDON, August 13. Ecclesiastical sanction of birth control, which a leading article in & the Church Times describes as positive revolution in Christian morality and, a departure from the position adopted at the last. Lam- beth Conference in 1990, threatens to become a first-class controversy. The Church Times publishes a the Anglo-Catholic letter from Bishop of Bloemfontein, who is one of the 67 opponents of the Lambeth resolation on the approval of con traceptives, stating that in order to clear my soul I wish to say that there are statements in the report from which I conscientiously and vehemently dissociate myself"
GERMAN-POLISH RELATIONS.
POLES OFFENDED BY GERMAN UTTERANCE.
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{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
WARSAW, August 14. M. Zaleski, the Foreign Minister, to-day called on the German Chargé d'Affaires and formally protested against the speech of Herr Trevir- anus, and
asserted that such speeches made it impossible to im- prove German-Polish relations.
EXTRALITY IN CHINA.
BRITAIN PREPARING DRAFT PROPOSALS.
{THROUGH, REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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LONDON, August 14. With reference to the reports of Sino-British negotiations regarding extra-territoriality, Reater learns that the British Government is pre- paring draft proposals.
Nothing is known in London about the Chinese draft proposals, nor of instructions to Sir Miles Lampson to proceed to Nanking. although he will obviously go there if the negotiations reach a definite stage.
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Up to the present no decision has been reached regarding the removal of the British Legation from Pei- ping to Nanking.
(Fah Tr Tat Pas.)
British Minister Visiting Nanking.
PEIPING, August 15. Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister, will leave for Nanking within five days to discuss with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regard. ing the abolition of extrality,
Sir Miles Lampson, in a state- ment, said that should the Com munists along the Yangtze become less active, the British Government would not postpone the negotia tions regarding the extra-terri-
CANTON MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT.
GOVERNMENT OF KWANG- TUNG TO HAVE CONTROL,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}
[A message of August 1 stated:toriality issue. Lively discussions at Warsaw, with possibly even a diplomatie incident, are likely to follow a speech by Herr Treviranus, a former Minister of the occupied regions, in which he out- spokenly discussed, the question of Germany's castern frontiers. Speak ing at a demonstration to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the plebis, cite of East Russia (in which so per cent. of the inhabitants expressed the desire to remain in Germany), Herr Treviranus referred to the Vistula region of Poland as an un- healed wound in Germany's eastern When he left the Air Port her flank. He said that the future of Commander said that he hoped to Poland could only be assured if reach Cardington in 50 hours. If Germany and Poland were not kept this schedule is adhered to, the in perpetual unrest by unjust, fron R. 100 will beat the Graf Zeppe- tiers. Our eyes see with grief the lin's time for the West to land which to-day is lost to ne, bat East crossing. The German air-one day will be re-von The day ship took 56 hours 24 minutes to will come when the fight for justice crose from Lake Hurst, New Jersey, vill free Germany and Europe.”] to Friedrichahavon, Lake Constance. The R.100 already holds the record for the East to West Atlantic cross- ing..
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]
LONDON, August 14. The R. 100 airship, with a follow- ing wind and clear skies, is flying homewards at the rate of 75 miles an hour. It is expected that she will reach Cardington in "55 hours, thus establishing Atlantic record.
The steadiness of the ship is marvellous and everything is very
comfortable.
£
new
trace-
The airship is enjoying ideal weather and passed over the Straits of Belle Isle at midday, maintain ing a steady average of 70 thiles an hour. She covered, ja the fast eight hours a distance which took 24 hours on the outward voyage.
CANTON, August 15, Owing to certain arrangements not being completed, the change of status of the Canton Municipal Government will not be effected until the end of this month...
The change was originally plan- ned for August 1, after which the control of the Canton Municipality was to have shifted from Nanking to the Provincial Government of DROUGHT EFFECTS IN U.S. Kwangtung. But so much work
CONFERENCE OF STATE GOVERNORS.
{RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON,, August 14.
A conference of Governors of ten States in the drought area, conven- ed by President Hoover, met at the White House to-day in an effort to arrange effective State and local
zelief.
The Kentucky delegate before the conference stated that the maize crop in Kentucky would be only ten per cent and tobacco twenty per cent. of the normal.
Meanwhile the Supreme Court of New York State has appointed a referee to investigate an allegation that food and milk dealers have formed a combine to raise their prices, using the drought as an
LATER.
INDIAN ARMY READY. FOR EMERGENCY.
GRAVE SITUATION IN PESHAWAR.
"THROCOR BETTER'S AGENCY.Į
SIM, August 15 One British and three Indian battalions as a precautionary mea- sure are being moved up from Janhsi to Rawalpindi, in south-east
Peshawar.
An official communiqué describes the situation as one of considerable gravity and danger. ·
It says that the raiders are pro- fiting by the high crops to elude the military forces. Their total strength is now about 1,200, moving rapidly in small gangs about the ravides and walled gardens.
Military action is being taken, but is difficult while the crops are high. They are undoubtedly receiving food and shelter from the villagers, who join them whenever there is any prospect of loot.
Troops in the Peshawar and Kobat district are in ample strength and are fully prepared for all eventualities.
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CHOLERA EPIDEMIC AT KABUL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TEHERAN, August 14.
The cholera epidemic at Kabul is reported to be increasing daily.
The population has been com- pletely withdrawn from Kandahar.
SHAMROCK V GREETED QUIETLY.
PREPARING FOR TRIP TO RHODE ISLAND,
[REUTER'S 'AMERICAN SERVICE,
DELUGE IN CHIHLI.
THOUSAND VILLAGES
SUBMERGED.
(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGEVOY,]
PEIPING, August 15. Owing to the recent incessant. rains, a thousand villages are sub- merged by Boods in South-Eastern Hopei (Chili) and South-Western
Manchuria
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Numbers of villagers have been without food for days and are still clinging to tree tops and the roofs of higher buildings.
Rescue work is now proceeding, but it is reliably reported that over 3,000 persons have been drowned.
KWANGSI CAMPAIGN.
YANKING FORCES CLOSING
IN ON NANNING.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, August 15. The pro-Nanking forces operat- 14g in Kwangsi are reported to bệ closing in on Nanning, the capital. of the Province.
They have abandoned the siege of Eweilia and other strategic points on the Kwei River and are concentrating on the West River with Nanning as their objective.
The Yunnanese forces are said to be co-operating with General Chen Taai Tong from south of Nanning, but it is doubtful if from these mercenary soldiers. much assistance can be obtained
General Wong Shin Hung, leader of the Kwangsi troops, is still holding out at Luichow and other' important places. He has as yet shown no sign. of yielding, al- though he has been several times defeated..
CHINA AND LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
EFFORT TO OBTAIN SEAT ON COUNCIL.
[UNITED PRESE:]
Washington, August -Mr. We Chao Chu, the Chinese Minister to America, told the United Press to- day that he will sail for Geneva
NEW YORK, August 14. Shamrock the Fifth's arrival at New London was a very quiet one.
The coastguard cutters in the har bour dipped their colours and a few tugs sounded their sirens, but there was no official welcome.
The Shamrock V. is now prepar-late in August in an effort to secure ing for the journey to Rhode Island League of Nations Council seat
for China. for the races with the defender.
Her smooth underbody will be has been involved in the reorgani zation that more time is now requir. polished and the top of her 162 feet ed Each department and burcan mast, which was shortened for the of the Canton Municipal Govern-Atlantic crossing, will be fitted. ment has been buay winding up its No ordinary derrick is high work preparatory to turning it enough to lift the top of the mast over to the Provincial Government into place, but the difficulty has been overcome by the company for auditing
operating the swing bridge offer In all probability Mayor Lining the use of the bridge as an Wan Kot will continue his present office after the change has been effected. He had frequently sent in a letter of resignation to Nan king, but each time the Central Authorities prevailed upon him to withdraw it. In fact, Nanking reappointed him Mayor of Canton after the city is placed under the direct control of the Provincial Council, and this is understood to have the approval of General Chen Ming Shu
Meanwhile, the four American emergency hoisting device. candidates are preparing at Rhode Island for the final elimination trials which will decide which yacht will defend the cup.
RENEWED TONG" WAR' IN
NEW YORK.
CHINESE CHIEF SHOT DEAD
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He said he does not expect that there will be any discussion of the subject of extraterritoriality.
Mr Wu expects to be away some two months, He will leave. M Young Kwai, the Counsellor of Legation, in charge of affairs here.
PRESIDENT HOOVER'S
BIRTHDAY.
MRS. HOOVER ARRANGES
SURPRISE PARTY.
[UNITED PRESS.]
Luray, Virginia, August :. 9.— Mrs. Herbert Hoover arrauged a surprise party for her husband to day.
It was President Hoover', birth The R.100 will moor at Carding
The personnel will remain prac
day, and for dinner he had a ton on Friday night if possible.
Passing over the north shore of
tically unchanged, but the Bureau
birthday cake bearing 65 candles. of Public Safety, which has been
A murder recently broke the peace The cake had been carried and the Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,500 feet
an integral part of the Municipal between the Chinese Tongs in the carted with great difficulty some the passengers saw occasional pass-excuse.
Government, will be detached and United States which, it was sup-hundred miles to the vacation ing vessels or a lonely light-house
The Governors' Conference has placed upon the control of the Proposed, had been secured by the camp. keeper, and heard the salute of sirens above the drone of the agreed to a programme of covincial Government directly. After agreement to refrain from overt No gifts were exchanged, though enginea. The aide vista of the calm operative relief, whereby the Feder- the change has taken place the bostilities signed a few weeks ago each dinner guest received a small Atlantic beneath was the only real States Governments will work to Bureau will "take orders from the by representatives of the Hip Sing remembrance.
Dr. Boone, the President's per- minder that they were at acu. The gether to help over the winter the Provincial Council only, and not Tong sand, the On Leong Tong.
families deprived of means of sup from the Mayor, as formerly.. Throughout the struggle which pre-sonal physician, said that Mr. airship was as steady as if she were
port through failure of the crops
ceded the agreement between these Hoover's health at the present still at the mooring mast.
The programme will be carried out
Two Tongs and cost a large number time is excellent for a man of his by means of public and private
of lives, the Tong Ong Society, age," loans to the Red Cross, also by pro-
headed by Hung Wah Hung, re- viding employment and reducing the railway rate on food for live- stock.
GREAT MANCHESTER- LONDON FLIGHT. (@KITISH WIRELESS SKËVICE.] „
Buday, August 14.. A remarkable flight from Man- chester to London was made to-day by a Handley-Page Napier air liner fying on the Imperial Airways Service, the journey of 200, miles being covered in actual flying time of only 90 minutes, at an average speed of approximately 140 miles an hour.
U.S. MINE BOMBED.
INCENDIARY FIRE CAUSES
$50,000 DAMAGE.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
PROVIDENCE (K.), August: 14. Alter the arrest of two men charged with complicity with Mont gomery in his bomb-dropping flight on August 12, a small mine was destroyed by fire, which officials declared was incendiary.
HO CHIEN IMPEACHED.
CANTON HUNANESE
PETITION.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
mained neutraj. V.
Hang Wah Hung went to the
Chinese Theatre in the Bowery He BISHOPS LAMBETH
CONFERENCE.
LEADERSHIP OF MEN AND WOMEN:
[TÉROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 14. Encyclical Letter to the Faithful," The Archbishop of Canterbury's
sat beside the aisle in the middle of the theatre, which was crowded with 500 spectators. A long Chinese drama was being presented on the CANTON, August 15. -
stago and was drawing to ite climax. The Chinese orchestra, The Hunanese living in Canton which sits on the stage behind a low MADEIRA, August 14,"
to-day addressed & petition to Mar- wooden fence, maa playing low General J. B. M. Hertzog, who is
ahal Chiang Kai Shok and other music as an actor, taking the role en route to London to represent
members of the Nanking Govern of a robber, moved stealthily across South Africa at the Imperial Con-
ment, asking that General Ho the stage. Suddenly, five shots were [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
ference, interviewed by Reuter, said
Chies, Governor of Hunan, be con- fired, and Hung Wan Hung rolled that the Conference recognition of
dignly punished for his failure to off his seat into the aisle with four Buday, August 14.
South African independence was of
stop the Communist rape of Chang bullets in his body and one in his on behalf of the Lambeth Confer Forcatore were to-day building a
sha and other cities nearby, head. The audience stampeded into ence, states
The leadership of women is beacon on the top of Hunters' paramount importance. Under no conditions could he admit uncer- overlooking the Valley of Strath-tainty thereon, and when the report
The petition, after giving a vivid the Bowery. The damage is estimated at.
account of the recent. Communist Nobody seem to know where the needed as well as the leadership of men, for which we have enlarged of the last Conference, granting the
$50,000.00 This is regarded as indicating
TA message of August 13 stated: holocaust there, charges Ho Chien shots came from. The noise of the the work entrusted to the order of that the happy event at Glamis independant status of a Dominion, comoe up for confirmation, it would
The Providence coal mining district with permitting these desperadoes shots was partly drowned by the desconesses," Castle, where the Duchess of York be made clear that the right of
The resolutions are divided into New Yozz, August 14, of Kentucky, which has been torn to enter and rape the city without music and by the load crashes of a is laying
Gogh Africa tod " is now, momentarily ex-
is to be
Bishop Charles Mrema of the he inbour troubles for months, was offering reeistance. He was in thunderstorm which was going on six groups, the first of which urges umaintained-anongkrimandagirarem amazan
E aukcharge of both the military and cutside One clup is the fact that fresh representation of Christian Gazenpablovakisuworthedea Gatte-thrown a55d The beacon will be lighted ther
Referring to economic problems le Church, has been found guilty place at six in the morning, when cwil affairs of the Provide a Burgweg geppen visi ever the signal comes from the before the Conference, he said that of conspiring to violate the Pro- the miners were going to work should therefore be held responsible co-operation with the pollee in their as well as the heart.
for the widespread death and de attempts to find the convict murdor A dozen resolutions on the sub the South African Government was bibition Law by diverting the dropping a number of bombs near It should be visible for many prepared to enter into a trade pire-sacramental wine to bootleg chan-the entrance to the mines. There'struction brought about by the er of another member of the Ongject of marriage and sex.recom.. Tong Society, who was stabbad to mend, inter alia, that the marriage. miles, and if the weather is favour
with Great nels.
were no casualties and no damage, Communist upheaval
The petition also requests the death in the street a few weeks ago. of a person whose former partner able sailors in the North Sea shoulderonce agreement.
whilst same bombs did not explode. see the flare. A
They were found to he made of Central Government to send Special police squads were patroll- is still living should not be cele dynamite wrapped up in adhesive adequate troops to Hunan to dealing the streets of Chinatown in ex-brated according to the rites of the
effectively with the situation."" pectation of further outbreaks.
Church, tape with fases attached.]
imore.
castle parade
CZECH BISHOP VIOLATES
PROHIBITION LAW.-
[Reuter's AMERICAN SERVICE.]
Britain over a definite period pro-. The prosecution alleged that the vided that Great Britain extended Bishop made $40,000 yearly from A similar beacon was highted on Hunters Hill to celebrate the simlar preference to South African the traffic in wine at the rate of
products.
61, a gallon: Duchess' marriage:
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