NEW GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED.
"CONSISTS OF ELEVEN MINISTRIES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEIPINO, Sept. 1. The Northern Government was
definitely established this after.
noon.!!
The Government will have 11 Ministries, Interior, Foreign, Fin- ance, Justice. War, Navy, Eduen tion, Communications, Agriculture and Mining, Labour and Commerce, and Industry.
STATE COUNCIL FORMED.
YEN HSI SHAN ACCEPTS PRESIDENCY.
ÍTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEIPINO, Sept. 1.
A ntessage from Taiyuanfu to the
vernacular Press states that at a meeting of the Central Executive Committee held on August 30 it was decided that a State Council be formed immediately consisting of 11 members, of whom seven hither to have been announced, namely, Yen Hui Shan, Feng Yu Hsiang. The Ministers have not yet been Chang Hsueh Liang, Wang Ching appointed.
Wei, Tang Shao Yi, Li Tsung Jen and Hsu Chung Chih.
There will be one Yuan, namely, The Control Yuan, which will' exer- cise jurisdiction independently. Five to
seven members will be nominated to the Yuan by the Central Executive Committee.
A Military Council will also be established, and also 4 Supreme Court Committee, for the codifica tion of laws and a Committee on Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs.
"REDS" ADVANCING ON
CHANGSHA.-
ANXIETY IN HANKOW,
According to reliable Chinese telegraphic dispatches from Han- kow, the Communist troops Hunan. are as active as ever, in espite of the "drastic action" taken
in
Yen Hsi Shan was persistently urged to accept the Presidency of the Council, but after often refus ing he felt "obliged to accept."
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MUTINY AMONG SHANSI TROOPS.
(Wah Tez Fat Pao.)
Haucнowry, Sept. 1.
It is reliably reported that two battalions of the Shansi, troops at Changchow have mutinied.
They defeated the Shansi troops under Feng Yu Sai, and are now
conceptrating at Machang, openly declaring against Yen Hsi Shan.
The village volunteers near Tien- tsin are supporting the mutineers.
AT. HOME.
by Governor He Chien. Changsha, | COLLAPSE OF HEAT WAVE the provincial capital, is now on the verge of being recaptured by the Communist "marauders who have arrived at a point some 20 li south of the city. Serious fighting has broken out since Sunday.
In view of the fact that it is │.. doubtful whether "General Ho'si troops will succeed in resisting the Communists, the Japanese Con- sulate has decided to remove to
Hankow until the situation becomes
more certain.
The menace
to Changsha has roused much anxiety among the Hankow authorities as the objec tives of the Communists after Changsha are Wuhan (Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang). The Third Training Division has been dis-
TEMPERATURE DROPS TO 65 DEGREES.
[TEBOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 1. The heat wave collapsed yester- day, a cold north-west wind lower, ing the temperature to the Septem ber normal temperature.
The temperature yesterday was 65 degrees compared with 80 on Saturday.
ANTICIPATED FAMINE. IN RUSSIA.
patched to the Wuchang-Changsha COLOSSAL RELIEF SCHEME.
Raway, and two armoured cars are now patrolling the railway. A section of the Communists are holding. Chuchow and Lizyang in Hunan,
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(THROUGH BRUTER'S "AGENCY.]
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1930.
CYCLE SMASH AT
SHANGHAI.
VELODROME COACH IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 1.
BANK MESSENGER ROBBED.
SEVEN MEMBERS OF GANG ARRESTED AT SHANGHAI.
[From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 1. s
J. Bengaston, chief coach at the Cess than three days after a dar Velodrome, is in a critical condi-ing robbery of $100,000 from a bank tion and is not expected to recover following a motor cycle crash on Saturday, when he lost control of the fiandle-bars, which impinged on his abdomen.
The doctors decided upon blood trantusion on Sunday.
Bengsston was a good ordinary "cyclist," but he had 'no' motorcycle
experience, and
the he rode machine for the second time in his life when attempting a stunt,
POLAND AND HER BORDERS.
NO VIOLATION OF TERRI. TORIAL RIGHTS.
{TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WARSAW, August 31. The recent speech of Dr. Tre viramus was the subject of a demon- stration by 10,000 people to-day when a resolution was passed con- demning all claims aiming at any diminution of Polish territory and declaring that Poland would never allow itself to be deprived of even Lan inch of liberated territory.
The Foreign Minister, M. Zaleski, to whom the resolution was convey-
RAILWAY OUTRAGE IN AMERICA.
EXPRESS DERAILED BY.
TRAIN WRECKERS. ··
[REUTER'E AMERICAN SERVICK.)
ST. Louis, Sept. 1. Eleven were killed and 30 injured as the result of the derailment of the express train running between
messenger on his arrival from St. Louis and San Francisco. Hangchow the police arrested seren The disaster is attributed to members of the robber gang, includ-train-wreckers placing a pile of ing a woman, and recovered $3,000 rocks on the rails. after a series of raids in three districts
PERUVIAN EX-DICTATOR'S
MILLIONS.
MOB SACKS PALATIAL RESIDENCE.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN EKRVICE.]
NEW YORK, August 31. According to travellers from Peru one of the reasons for the revolutionaries detaining Le Guia is the report that he has £25,500,000 in sterling in London banks.
The Peruvian indignation against Le Guia and others who enriched themselves under his regime is shown by the mob sacking Le Guia's residence at Lima and burn ing the expensive furniture in the street after setting fire to the house.
U.S. LABOUR DAY.
WHAT THE WORKERS
WANT.
DEVELOPMENT OF LABOUR MOVEMENT.
[UNITED PRESS.]
Washington, August 31.-Employ- ment, steady, certain and well-paid employment, is the foremost de mand of the American working- class as they prepare to celebrate. to-morrow Labour Day-the one" holiday of the year set asido especi- ally for them.
This is the view of the representa of Labour, whose 3,000,000 members tives of the American Federation constitute the voice, and power among
the country's 24,000,000 wage-arners.
Parades, meetings, and demon. Ministers' Resignations Accepted.atrations which will be held the length and breadth of the nation NEW YORK, August 31.
by these millions to-morrow will be A message received from Lima directed this year to showing the ed, gave an "assurance to the delega-states that the new Government is need for protecting the worker's tion that the Government would shaking up the Peruvian diplomatic Job
permit any violation of service. Poland's rights,
nover
The new Government has accept ed the resignations of the Peruvian A demon- Ministers to Great Britain, Spain,
Vienna and Brussels.
Speaking recently at stration to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the plebiscite of East Prussia (in which 90 per cent. of the inhabitants expressed a de. sire to remain in Germany), Dr. Treviranus referred to the Vistula region of Poland as an unbealed wound in Germany's eastern flank. He said the future of Poland could only be assured if Germany and Poland were not kept in a state of perpetual unrest by unjust frontiers.
Dr. Treviranus added:
"Our. eyes see with grief the land, which to-day is lost to us, but one day it may be re-won. A day will come when a fight for justice will free Gerinary and Europe."
PRIME MINISTER'S NARROW ESCAPE.
SYRACUSE, August 31. Colonel Walter Bell, who was Taking advantage of the civil
with Mr. warfare, the Communists are again formerly associated trying to stage a big demonstra, Hoover in relief work in Russia, tion along the Yangtze Valley. It has announced that be has accept- is said that they are under the ed the Soviet Government's invita- direction of the Third Internation- tion to begin a colossal scheme of HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
ale, which has instructed them to feeding masses of people with the capture Changsha as their base.
nid of aeroplanes in the anticipated. widespread famine in Russia.
EARTHQUAKE IN KANSU.
HAILSTORM AND FLOODS RUIN CROPS.
[THNOUGH NEUTER'S 'AGINUT.]
KING AND QUEEN AT
GLAMIS CASTLE.
SEE NEW GRANDCHILD FOR TIRST TIME,
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Ruday, August 31. The King and Queen, accom- PEIPING, Sept. 1." Just as Kannu was recovering panied by the Duke of York, ar- rived at Glamis Castle at lunch Lime yesterday to see their new grandchild.
from famine and the harvest 'pro- specta" seemed good, un "earthquake,
hailstorm and floods bave ruined No public notice of the intended the, crop in some districts, accord, visit had been given, and even the ing to a letter from Mr. Findlay polics en route from Balmoral did Andrew from Lanchow dated July not know that the Royal car was to
50..
pass,
Their Majesties returned to Bal- The bailstones were such as were had gathered and cheered them,
moral after lunch and many people unknown in living memory.
The King, who was dressed in Mr. Andrew found blocks of ice Highland costume, with a Balmoral nine inches by four after melting cap, saluted several times, while the Queen, who was, wearing a beige all night.**.
coat with fur trimming and toque Sheep and birds were killed and to match, bowed and smiled.
The Duke of York remained at trees were stripped.
Glamis Castle.
The devastated area measures 40 miles long by five miles wide.
The parthquake awakened all the inhabitants at Lanchow on July 24.
Reports were still coming in when the letter was written reporting severa damage from the earthquake in certain districts.
It will be recalled that there has been more than one appalling earthquake in Kansu in recent years with much loss of life,
Progress of Duchess and Infant A Princess
AND ELECTRIC WIRES FUSE.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Legal Restraint.
"NIGHT SCOT" MEETS GRIM SOLUTION OF
WITH MISHAP ARCTIC MYSTERY.
CRASHES INTO BUFFER- STOPS AT EUSTON,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 1.. The Night Scot," the express train from Glasgow, on arriving at Easton Station this morning hauled
buffer-stops. by two engines crashed, into the
ANDREE'S REMAINS
RECOVERED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]
TROMSOE, Sept. The sealer Bratvaag with the re miains of Andres the explorer and his companions, which were found at White Island," between Spitz- bergen and Franz Josefland, by a Norwegian scientific expedition on August 6, has arrived at Hasvik West Hammerfest.
The driver and fireman of the first engine were buried under the coal and thrown from the tender."
One coach was partly telescoped
It is reported that the bodies are and scores of windows of the train merely skeletons. Two are mostly were broken.
whole, and the third consists of The Twenty passengers were slightly only the remnants of bone. injured.
skull is separated from the body. The skeleton is supposed to be Andree's
The crowd on the platform await. ing friends were horrified by the crash, which was heard for a considerable distance outside the
station.
BOMBAY, COTTON MILLS CLOSE.
SIXTY THOUSAND WORKERS IDLED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
.:
A party of Swedish scientists are proceeding north in the Govern ment ship Michael Sars, which is expected this evening. They will examine the remains and pablish a communiqué.
The work of preservation will be undertaken at the Tromsoe Hor- pital.
Lost at the North Pole.. BOMBAY, Sept. 1. Andree Jeft Danes' Island, Spitz- Sis more cotton mills have closed bergen, on July, 1897, in a balloon down, making a total of 24 since with two companions, intending to the civil disobedience movement started.
fly to the North Pole. He disap Sixty thousand workers are in-peared, and several expeditions volved,
were sent in search of the missing balloonists.
TOLL OF THE ROAD IN ENGLAND.
BIG INCREASE IN ACCIDENTS.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, August 31, Deaths from accidental injury by
The camp was situated 200 yards from the shore, and bore, many evidences that the balloonists had lived for some time after their forced landing.
to Norway.
Andree's body was coated with ice and fully dressed. His diary was in his pocket. Near a boat, în The next most important matter
which were vestiges of the remains. in their minde is curbing the use
of the third balloonist, the equip of the injunction, a Court regula-
ment found included a sledge, a tion whereby a judge with un-mechanical vehicles on the roads book of observations, and instru- checked" power" in labours' view, increased from 4,492 in 1027 to 5,231ments. All these will be brought may restrain persons from acts re-
in 1929 and 3,790 in 1920. garded a detrimental to the pub-
This is shown by the Registrar- Logbook Entries. lic good. It is used especially in carrying out its plans. Aside from.
Exclusive of collisions between time of strike to prevint labour Stan's statistical review of these thongs labour asks for the two different types of vehicles, the right of collective bargaining, and deaths caused by motor cars in freedom for voluntary, expansion of creased from 1,550 to 1,660 and. various types of social insurance. those by motor cycles from 1,043 to AIR RACE ROUND ITALY, the United States and in
The importance of employment; | 1,762.
The Minister and Corisul-General to France have been superseded and the former has been ordered to return to Lima for an investigation
of his conduct.
ENTHUSIASM FOR ENGLISII
LADY COMPETITOR...
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Roy, August 31. "La Miss," otherwise the Eng- lishwoman, Miss Winifred Spooner, arrived second at the Littorio aero- drome on the fourth and last lap of the international air race round Italy.
The crowd was terrifically enthu
Fumagalli
i
other countries, was placed first and indicated as most urgent in a statement issued to the United Press on the eve of Labour Day by Frank Morrison, Secretary of the American, Federation of Labour.
"Unemployment,
England and Wales.
LIFEBOAT RACE AT NEW
YORK.
KEEN CONTEST EXPECTED.
[UNITED PRESS.].
sealer Bratvaag, on which are the Norwegian scientists who discover- The Captain of the Norwegian
ed the bodies of Andree, and hie comrade, believes that the solution of the mystery is due to the heavy rain melting the ice under which the bodies were buried, as only a fortnight previously the crew of another Norwegian sealer went ashore at the same neighbourhood and found nothing.
Andree's diary and logbook were coated with ice, and it was impos- sible to open them properly, but one of the last pages of the logbook. contains the entry "18/7/1867, 83 degrees north, 32 east," indicating that the expedition reached a more northerly latitude than was gener-
Among the problems facing Lab- our to-day," he said, "two are out-
New York, August 31. The standing in need for solution. fourth annual lifeboat-race for The first of these as unemployment.crews of steamers entering the portally supposed.
"As I see it, & short work-day, of New York will take place to- The skeleton of a Polar bear
a five-day week, and higher wages morrow morning in the harbour
is the solution to this problem here.
siastic and roared Bravo Miss!" when Miss Spooner arrived.
far as we are concerned. But it The championship crew, the Sud Fifty-two competitors started in
is also a world problem, and 1 Americano of the Garica, and Diaz the race, Miss Spooner being the may express at this time the hope lines, will be out to-morrow to win only British entrant. There was
countries may secure early adjust them the William H. Todd cup competition, this being Signorina ment of their unemployment prob- which they won twice before. They one other woman aviator in the that the labour movements of other their third victory, thereby giving
The four laps constituting the lems.
captured the trophy in the first race hold in 1927, lost, to the Cun" course included a 430 mile stretch over the Alps. There were ten
ardiner crew Mauretania in 1928, landing points on the route and
only to win again in 1929. RUGBY, "August 31. many competitors dropped out.
The Italian flyer, Colonel Sacchi, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had a
won the first three laps and the narrow escape when the house at German, Lusser, the fourth. Miss which he was staying at Catterick Spooner was placed fifth at the end of the third Tap, but the final re- Camp was struck by lightning insults have not yet been decided. Friday's storm and when all the electric wires fused.
Mr. MacDonald, who was return- ing to Lossiemouth by air, was forced through bad weather condi- tions to turn back at the Scottish border and make a landing at Catterick
Interviewed yesterday, he said the storm was both violent and virulent. It lasted some hours If we had been up half an hour later we would have got it." came suddenly, he added.
It
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON'S TOUR.
VISIT TO SWEDEN ANO DENMARK
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}.
Bugay, August 31.": The Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Waterlow, and the Lady Mayoress, accompanied by several Corporation officials, left London last night on a short visit to Leiden and Denmark
The following bulletin was after the party will arrive at Gother wards inslet frum audi Sastles bly teoriamės with heranker The Duchess of York is very well. tained to lunch by the Governor Her Royal Highness has made most.
They will then travel to Stock satisfactory progress during the holm, where on Tuesday there will week The infant Princess is also be a reception in the Council Hall: very well and has gathered weight The Crown Prince of Sweden will steadily. Signed: Henry, Simson, be present David Moles
Bir Henry. Simon has now left Glamis Castle for London.
Miss Spooner, is the daughter of
Man.
The second problem is to secure passage of some legislation pre venting use and abuse of the in junction in labour disputes. A Bill to do this has been submitted to Congress but reported unfavor ably by the Committee. It will be taken up. at the forthcoming session in December, however, and we feel certain we will secure its adoption by the Senate."
A New Graj
a well-known Plymouth business Taking up mors general features She was the only woman of the labour movement in the competing in the air race round Europe last year; she also com-United States, Secretary Morrison
said: peted this year, being placed fifth This Labour Day is marked by with 416 points, eleven behind the winner. In the round-Europe race she was easily the highest scorer in the starting and landing tests over 30 foot obstacles.
ANGLO-AMERICAN POLO
pronounced trend toward new economic outlooks and a realiza tion that our nation is at the threshhold of "another" "era,
The Cunard line announced that it would again enter the lifeboat crew of the Mauretania, and others that participated in former years A tough contest will again rase. is expected between these two for mer winners.
The three race, held thus far developed a keen spirit of competi- tion among the crews of the liners entering port.
ing and will not be postponed if
Th race will be held in the morn the weather is bad. The use of grease or pot-lead on the bottoms of the lifeboats will automatically disqualify the craft.
The race is held under the aus pices of the Neptunes Association.
These viewpoints have boen de veloping since the World War. During the past year, however, more thought, has been given to the labour, establishment of workmen's revolutionary effect of automatic compensation, higher wages, shor- ranchinery and its displacement ofter hours, free education, and other workers, mass production, merginasue, now accepted by the general and the encroachment of Equity public. Courts in the field of law enforce
ment.
The past year has been marked by a clearer understanding of the These sweeping changes, yet in their infancy, have overturned for misuse of the injunction. This pro- mor eodcepta. The new cycle has CS 18 no longer called a labour problem. Equity is rapidly en- brought adherents to policies that eroathing on the rights of the pub. would be considered. a few years lic Press and business. Labour will ego, inconsistent with American continue its agitation against this principles.
BRITISH PLAYER UNDER- GOES OPERATION.
[REVIER'S AMERICAN BERVICE]
-NEW YORK, Sept. 1. Aidan Roark, the reserve member of the British polo team to meet America in the West Chester Cop matches, was operated on yesterday for mastoiditis in the New York "Old-age pensions, long advocat Eye and Ear Infirmary ped by organized labour, was con-
Dr. Mahon-Best Vau soften endered, put
Old Age Pensions.
I
wrong, ya d
Five-Day Week,
The universal five-day week is
a certainty in the near future. It the pressity because of changing
being enforced in many rections: the operative doseribed the Jet American Avalent The economic conditions, and it 13 Dow patient's condition as critical automatic machine, with ite army being but later it was reported that he of unemployed together with dis Organized labour faces the new was progressing comfortably and placement of workers who have collective age with a better under that the outlook for his recovery reached the age of 40 and 45, make standing, with increased member old-age pension, a problem of ma ship, and a greater faith in their possibilities through unified action. was promising.
Roark underwent a slight opera jor importance. In Copenhagen on September 9tion ten days ago, when the sur-This has been true of other pro- We will extend out usefulness just they will be received by the King of geons opened an eardrum in an hiems, such as abolition of child in proportion as we develop in
effort to relieve the infection. (Continued at foot of next column)telligence and a will to do," ad
Denmark
found in the camp was presumably
killed for food.
The Norwegian expedition before leaving built a cairn to mark the site of the tragedy.
ANDREE'S LOGBOOKS FOR
WSWEDEN.
NORWAY TO MAKE NO CLAIM.
Stockholm, August 25.-The Swedish fears that Norway might claim the diaries and logbooks of the dead explorer Andree and his companions, were quickly dissipat- ed by a statement issued to-day by the Norwegian Foreign Minister to the effect that the question of the legal ownership of the documents bad never been considered and that.
be handed over to the commander as a matter of fact everything would 91 the Swedish craiser, Sverdringe, after the arrival of the Bragraart,
discovered the remains of the the ship of the expedition which Andree expedition, at Trom500 where in the meantime the Swedish Consul concluded his investigations among the crew of the Norwegian whaler Tenningen and announced that there was no reason to doubt the reports concerning the dis-
covery,
TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT
CAPTAIN COSTE PILOTS "QUESTION MARK.!!
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AUKNUT.]
- PARIS, Sept. 1. Candsin Coste within navigator named Bellonte started on a trang Atlantic "ught Id the famous, Question Mark, which has already secured several long-dis tance records. AREAS
The machine has an engine of 650 horsepower, and is capable of a sneed of 120 miles an hour.
The Bight is expected to take-35
hours.
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