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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1930.

CHINA'S CIVIL WAR. FORGERY CASE AT ARMED ROBBERY AT AUSTRALIAN STATE

LULL IN FIGHTING OWING TO FLOODS.

[TEKOUGA HEUTER'S AGENCY.}

Pepino, August 21. Owing to the floods, there has been a lull in the fighting.

Three Kuominchun divisions are reported to have reached the Yellow

River Front to stiffen the "Shanai "forces.

SHANGHAI.

BRITISH SOLDIER FACES

GRAVE CHARGE.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

SHANGHAI, August 21.. Private Sydney Bourne, attached to the B.A.M.C., was committed for trial on several charges of forgery, including obtaining money from on Indian watchman at the Astor

SHANGHAI

"BUDGETS.

ROBBERS HELD AT BAY BYÍ · PREMIERS' CONFERENCE

INDIAN WATCHMAN.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

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SKINGHAI, August 11. Six men armed with Mausers 'made's desperate attempt to rob ing Works in the Baikal Rond, but the pay-roll of the Tiengish Frint-

were frusterated by an Indian watchman who kept the marauders

RESOLUTIONS.

(THROUGH BEUTER'S ASKNOT.]

MELBOURNE, August 21. At a conference of State Pre- miers, over which Mr. Scullin,

aided, yesterday, and Sir Otto Federal Premier, thoughill, pre-

Niemeyer, representing the Bank of

GALES AND RAINS IN BRITAIN.

TREMENDOUS HAVOC WROUGHT.

(THROUGH RÄUTER'A AGZNOT, ]"

LONDON, August 21, Gales and torrential rains created great havoc throughout Great Bri- tain last night

B.Y.S. Talander Driven Aahore, "The Royal Yacht Squadron yacht

Fowey.

House on a forged promissory note at bay, while he shouted for assist- England, attended, passed the fol Islander was driven dshore near

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHTS. and a saxaphone from Messrs.

ANGLO-AMERICAN DRAFT

AERIAL AGREEMENT.

[KRUTER'S AMERICAN BEAVİÇE.)

WASHINGTON, August 21, The United States Government has submitted to the British Gov. ernment a draft of a proposed reciprocal aerial agreement covers

Moutrie & Co.

Accused, when cautioned, declar- ed that he did it to benefit some- body else and not himself.

ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.

VIEW:

ing trans-Atlantic flights and other MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S aerial undertakings between Great Britain and her Dominions and the United States,

„

A similar agreement already exists with Canada, under which the granting of pilots' licences by cach nation is recognised by the

other.

(THROUGH SAUTER'S ADENCY.]

ance.

The watchman put up a brave struggle. He was shot down and is now in a serious condition, but. it is expected that he will recover.

IMPROVED CONDITIONS IN PESHAWAR.

· [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SIA, August 20.

An official report states that conditions at Peshawar and in the

district have greatly improved.

The Afridis are believed to have dispersed and the district is clear of hostile tribesmen.

The situation among the Moh- mands, however, where the Haji of Turangzai is active, gives cause for anxiety..

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LONDON, August 20. The conviction that the result of the Indian Round Table Confor

European Views in Calcutta.

CALCUTTA, August 20. ence will almost certainly be con-

The European community forsook fusion worse confounded was re-ite normal political apathy to-day 'AIRSHIP'S TRIP TO INDIA. corded by Mr. Winston Churchill and packed the New Empire Thea in a speech at Minster, Kent, intre to discuss conflicting resolu the course of which he strongly cri- The first of these had consider ticised the Government's recordable support, advocating the re- especially as regards the handling peal of the Government of India Act of 1919 and a reversion to the of the Indian situation.

modified form of the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909.

"ATTEMPT WITHOUT PETROL

IN THE TROPICS.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.?

RUGBY, August 20. When the airship 201 is taken out for her trials before leaving for India, her gross lift will be about 173 tons, as compared with 158 tong of the R100. She will have gained an extra lift of 15 tons by

the insertion of an extra bay and a further six tons by various me

difications.

tions.

lowing resolutions:-

I-Tbat a State Government should have a fixed determination to balance its current budgets

future.

F

All hands were lost,

LATER. Commodore Henry Douglas King. M.P., is among the victims of the 31-ton auxiliary cutter Islander, which was lost at Fowey.

and maintain balanced budgets in That the Loan Council shall not raise further overscaf loans antil the existing short-tered the Islander three weeks ago His Majesty the King had char- terni indebtedness has been com- from the owner, Colonel John pletely dealt with.,

III. That approval shall not

Diggle, with the intention of cruis

be given to undertaking new uning in the Channel with a few reproductive works.

IV. That in order to secure the regular service of the public debt from revenue all interest pay- ments shall be made to a special account in the Commonwealth Bank solely for the payment of interest.

Y.-That

friends.

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE

AND EGYPT.

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S

TAUNT.

the Commonwealth and State Treasurers shall pub. lish monthly in Australia and (THROCOR BÉCTER'S AGENCY.] Overseas a uniform summary of the Budget and revenue and ex-

LONDON, August 20 penditure and position of the In the course of a speech deliver- abort-term debt, and the state ofed at Minster, Kent, to-day, Mr. the Loan Account..

Winston Churchill, referring to Only Way to Meet Obligations, by

Egypt, said that the Foreign Office, continual interference in LATER.

Egyptian affairs, seemed endeavour- The Conference of Premiers ap.ing to produce an impossible situa pointed a Committee to give effect that they are trying to broed civil tion. One would almost think

to the resolution consisting of the war in Egypt as you might breed Treasurers of the Commonwealth serpents at the Zoo." Lowest Ebb of British Authority.

and New South Wales, Victoria and The second was an official resolu- South Australia, who were tion generally approving the re-powered to consult outside finan At the outset, Mr. Churchill re- ferred to the North-West Frontier port of the Simon Commission,

The speeches revealed a sharp cial and economic authorities. and declared that the recent Afridi division, and a show of hands ap- invasion marked the lowest obb apparently rejected the second re- to the present of British authority in India.

He said it almost seemed that high places which the same spirit of defeatism" la was rapidly throwing India into chaos had military action at

Gandhi a "Malevolent Fanatic."

One compression ignition start-paralysed Feshawar. ing engine has also been obtained to take the place of one of the petrol engines hitherto used. "If it Mr. Churchill described as "ab. is a success, four others will beject foolishness" the exclusion from

obtained. for the remaining engine care and then the R101 will carry no fuel but heavy oil.

It is the aim of the Airship De. partment to do without petrol, par ticularly for n voyage in the Tropica

the Round Table Conference of

Sir John Simon in the hope of placating the "malevolent fanatic," Gandhi.

The former Chancellor of the Exchequer added that no proposal for Dominion Status for India would pass even the present House of Commona

One other improvement may yet be completed before the ship sails. It is believed that the problem, has been solved of making one of the engines reversible without losing any power, and a special wood pro. pelier is now being made for fitting to this engine: Success in this respect will allow the ship to CONGRESS DICTATES TERMS.

use all her engines, instead of re- serving one for going asteru in case of emergency.

FORCED LABOUR IMPORTS

IN U.S.A...

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}·

WASHINGTON, August 21. Mr. Albert Johnson, head of the Immigration Committee of the House of Representatives, has col- lected a number of affidavits claim- ing that lumber, wheat and other Soviet imports are produced by forced labour.

Mr. Johnson is agitating, for the Treasury to enforce an anti-dump. ing clause in the new Tariff Act.

NEW YORK CITY SCANDALS.

·INVESTIGATION OF ENTIRE

·JUDICIARY SYSTEM. §

[REVIER'S AMERICAN, BREVICK.)·

New Yonx, August £1. It is stated that Governor Roose- velt of New York, has decided upon. thorough investigation of the entire minor judiciary system in New York City as a result of the recent series of scandals culminat- ing in an allegation that the former City Magistrate, Mr. George Ewald, gave over $10,000 to Tam- many Hall politicians for his ap pointment in 1927

BOYCOTT OF EUROPEAN

MILLS IN INDIA.

(THROUGH, BIUTER'S AGENCY.]

BOKRY, August 20. The Boycott Committon of the Bombay Congress has offered to remove its ban on European man- aged mills on certain conditions. which include that 75 per cent, of the capital, two-thirds of the diree torate and all the staff oxcept special cases must be Indian.

SIMON COMMISSION'S REPORT.

TERMED A "BEST SELLER",

[BETTISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, August 20. Since the two volumes of the Simon Commission's Report on India were published in June over 45,000 copies of each have been sold and the report is still selling.

For a work of that particular type it can fairly be described as a best seller.

The circulation figures, of course, include copies sold in India.

OBSTREPEROUS INDIAN SCHOOL GIRLS.”

ATTEMPT TO HOIST NATIONAL FLAG.

(THEODOH REUTEE'S AGENCY.]

AHMEDABAD, August 20.

solution, but the theatre "was re- quired for a performance and there was no time to take a counting.

The meeting consequently ad- journed until August 22.

em-

The Conference, after hearing Sir Otto Niemeyer and Sir Robert Gibson, Chairman of the Common- wealth Bank, expressed the opinion that arrangements to relieve the aitiation involved a heavy dimin- tion of revenac and expenditure, MAURETANIA STILL FAST. and also substantial sacrifices from the community, but it was the only AVERAGES OVER 25 KNOTS

possible way to avoid failure to AN HOUR.

meet national obligations, which was unthinkable.

2.

(DRITISH WIRKLASS SERVICE.]”

RUGBY, August 20. The Mauretania, which arrived at Plymouth yesterday, made her quickest passage this year, taking, only 24 minutes over five days.

Her average speed had been 23.72 knots.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO MOSCOW.

MARRIED IN PARIS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PARIS, August, 20, Sir Esmond Ovey, British Am bassador to Moscow, has married Madame Barrios, who is a French woman by birth.

AUSTRALIA'S FINANCIAL POSITION REVIEWED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S SCENCY.]

MELBOURNE, August 21. Sir Otto Niemeyer's critical re- view of Australia's financial posi- tion delivered at the Premiers' Conference has been published:

Credit of Country at Low Ebb. Sir Otto-Niemeyer" declares that the credit of the country is at a lower ebb than in the other Domi. nions, not excluding India.

The Daly misor alleviation was the ab- [Sir Esmond Ovey was until re

British Ambassador to

sence of external obligations matur. gently

1879;ing in 1030-1931. Therefore, Austra Brazil. He was born in and had previously, been mar-lia had two years to put her bouse ried, his first wife being a daugh in order.

Standard of Costs Increasing. %

ter of the late Rear-Admiral W. H. Emory, of the U.S. Navy. He has had a lengthy diplomatic Sir Otto Niemeyer says that the career, having served at Stockholm, Australian standard of costs com Tangier, Paris, Washington, Teheran and Mexico, in which lat-pared with the rest of the world is ter country he was Minister from increasing rapidly. Wool prices 1925 to 1926.]

may maintain approximately their present level, but it is very difficult to see how wheat will not drop

TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IN

TURKEY.

LAUNCHING OF NEW LIBERAL PARTY.

further.

Standerd of Living Beyond Coun- try's Capacity.

There was evidence that the standard of living in Australia had reached a point economically be yond the country's capacity.

Difficulties to be Faced to be

Capable of Selation.

Angora, August 13-The estab lishment of a two-party system in the National Assembly became an nccomplished fact to-day when the former Ambassador to Paris Ali Fethi Bey, who resigned from the diplomatic servico a few days ago, requested the registration of his new Liberal" party and submitt ed to the Government its program ne which, it is stated, has the sup- port of 85 out of the 316 Deputies from which other countries have of the Assembly. eve emerged, and they have only to be

(The chief items of the new party's faced to be capable of solution. programme comprise active. operation with the European Pow

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Nine women and. 20 boys, includere and peoples, legal reforms, ing ruducia Ben, the daughter of freedom of the press without any It is understood that the investi- the millionaire mill owner, Sethsam conditions and restrictions, tax- gation will go into the manner of hal al Sarabhar, and Khrashed reductions, universal suffrage and the appointment and conduct on the Ben the grand daughter of the late 4 friendly attitude towards foreign Reach stall City Magistraten. Dadabhai Nacross former mere capitti”“rocking" opportunkeler kan

The Press irrespective of party, ber of the House of Commons, were Turkey

Practically the entire Press ac applauds the Governor's action." arrested and 100 persons injured

Governor Roosevelt is summoning when the police to-day made a corded the new party, a favourable, an extraordinary session of the lathi charge on a crowd in front of welcome, suggesting that its forma- New York Supreme Court on the the Government girls' school. tion had apparently been ganction 20th instant to investigate the The charge followed an attempted beforehand by President Kemal chargo against Ewald, in spite of by the girl students to hoist the Pasha who has for a long time been the fact that the Grand Jury Nationalist flag in defiance of the on very friendly terms with All

authorities.

Fethi Boy. fused to indict him last week."

The review concludes with the observation that Australia's difficul- ties cannot be compared with those

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

COMMONWEALTH - PREMIER AEAVES FOR LONDON

|| [TUROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,

DROUGHT RELIEF IN

AMERICA.

DEFINITE FINANCIAL

PROGRAMME.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

WASHINGTON, August 20.

A meeting of the banking repre sentatives on the State Relief Com- mittees has been called for Tucs day to map out a definite financial programme for drought reiief work.

Mr. Hyde, Secretary, of Agricul ture and head of President Hoov er's National Drought Relief Com- mittee, stated that 3900,000 of the original $8,000,000 fund.. were available for seed loans in Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Mon.

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The Relief Committee includes Mr. Legge, of the "Federal Farm Board, Mr. Young, of the Federal Reserve Board, Mr. J. B. Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross, and Mr. Ogden Mills, Un- der Secretary of the Treasury.

OBITUARY.

FAMOUS BRITISH

ASTRONOMER.

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(THROUGH REVERE'S AGENOT.]

STOCKHOLM, August 20. Professor H. H. Turner, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford Univer sity.

Professor Herbert Hall Turner, D.Sc, F.R.6., had been Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford since 1803. He was born in 1881 and educated at Leeds Modern' School, Clifton; and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ho was a Fel- low of New College, Oxford, and of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and President of the Royal Astroni omical Society in 1930-04. From 1913 to 1929, he was one of the General Secretaries of the British he was President of the Beismology. Association, and in the latter year

Section of the International Geo- physical Union at Rome. In 1925, he was awarded the Bruce Modal of the Astronomical Society.]

The death has occurred here of

NOTED AUSTRALIAN

CRICKETER.

THROUGH BEUTER'S 'AGENCY.]

SYDNEY, August 20 Mr. Charles Bannerman, a mem- ber of the first Australian Test team to visit England in 1890, dropped dead to-day at the age of PLE

He scored 165 not out against England at Melbourne in the 1876-7 ZEASON.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDT.]

LONDON, August 21, MELBOURNE, August 21. The death is announced of Miss Mr. Scullin, the Federal Premier, Mamon Terry, the lust of four has proceeded to Perth to embark fanious actress sisters, including for England to attend the Imperial Dame Ellen Terry, who died on Conference.

July 27, 1828.

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FIFTH TEST MATCH.

RAIN INTERFERES WITH 'PLAY.

ENGLAND'S POOR START IN SECOND INNINGS.

LONDON, August 20. Australia's innings did not Inst very long after Bradmair and McCabe were out. True, Oldfield (34) and Fairfax (64) put up a very excellent showing, but the remaining batamen, Wall and Hornibrook, were out very cheaply, and Australia put up the formidable total of 605 runs. Grimmett ahowed no signs of being tail-ender and dealt confidently with Larwood's expresses, but he stepped in front of a straight one from Peebles and was given marching orders Wall was sent back to the pavilion vid the same route before he had opened his scoring, while Hornibrook was caught behind the sticks. Fairfax was not out for 53, and this in- cidentally was his first half-century in Test matches.

The English bowling was sound," but "Peebles was always a source of danger to the batsmen.

Jack Hobbs, b Fairfax: 9.

In spite of the cut-up pitch and poor light, Wyatt sent the old firm, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, out to open the Old Country's second innings. The English skipper, however, soon had reason to regret this step, for Hobbs was bowled neck and crop by Fairfax when he was just one short of double figures

Whysall joined Sutcliffe, and when they brought the score to 24 runs for the loss of 1 wicket, stumps were drawn on account of bad light. The former had scored six runs, while the Yorkshire- man's share was eight.

No Play Yesterday.

LONDON, August. 21. Heavy rains rendered play impossible to-day and the scores, up- to-date, are:-

ENGLAND; FIRST INNINGS.

J. B. Hobbs, a Kippax, b wall

B. W. Sutclife, e "Oldfield, b Fairfax

W. W. Whysall, 1.b.w., b wall

E. 8. Duleepsinghi, e Fairfax, b Grimmett

W. E. Hammond, b McCabe mal

M. Leyland, b Grimmett

E. E. S. Wyatt, e Oldfield, b Fairfax.

M. W. Tate, st. Oldfield, b Grimmett H. Larwood, 1.b.w., b Grimmett G. Duckworth, b Fairfax

I. A. E. Peebles, not out

Extras

T. Wall

SERBAPCAR

Total

405

Bowling Analysis,

0.

M. E

37

26

A. Fairfax .....

31 9

0. V. Grimmett

66.2 18.

135

9. McCabe

92

49.

151

M4

..P. M. Hornibrook

AUSTRALIANS: FIRST INKINGS,

W. M. Woodfull, c Duckworth, b'Peebles W. H. Ponsford, b Peebles.

D. G. Bradman, e Duckworth, b Larwood A. F. Kippax, b Wyatt, b Peebles A. Jackson, e Butelie, b wysit

S. McCabe, e Duckworth, b Hammond “. W. A. Oldfeld, e Larwood, b Peebles A. G. Fairfax, not out ...

C. V. Grimmett, Lb.w., b Peebles T. Wall, 1.b.w., b Peebles

P. M. Hornibrook, a Duckworth, b Tata

Extras

Larwood Tate

Peebles

Wyatt

Total

Bowling Analysis.

O. M.

B.

48- 6

139

65.1 12 153 12 8 204 14. I 68

42 12 70 187

ENGLAND: SECOND INNINGS.

34

695

Hammond

Leyland

J. B. Hobbs, «b Fairfax H. W. Sutcline, not out W. M. Whyall, not out

Extras

Total (for 1 wicket)'....... 24

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