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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930.

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Customs officials at Marseilles re- cently seized a barrel of olive oil containing iron enses filled with 184 lbs of heroin.

H.M.S. Birmingham, which was the frat vessel to sink a German Bubmarine, during the war, will be sold shortly at Devonport

The death has occurrod of Mr. A. C. M. Croome, a noted sportaman and writer on cricket and golf and a fine classical scholar. He was u master at Wellington..

Senator Marconi has been elected a member of the Italian Academy and it is expected that he will even tually succeed to the presidency,

A number of Indian princea, now! visiting London have proposed to erect an oquestrian statu to lis Majesty the King at New Delhi. The Viceroy, who is much in favour of the suggestion, expects that His Majesty that give the necessary authorization.

Tho Silesian Sejm lias passed a motion submitted by the Govern ment coalition and proposing the inclusion into the Silesian budget of an annual' amount of 250,000 Zloty destined as a contribution to the strengthening of the Polish havy.

Mt. Lionel Cox, Government Monopolies Department, Singa+ pore, was married to Miss Jonn Katherine Beckh, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry O. Beckh 16, Palmerston; pond, Dublin, at Dublin, on September 17.

CHAMBER'S PLEA

AT WEIHAIWEI.

BRITISH COVERNMENT PUT EVERYTHING

FORWARD AS MODEL,

NANKING CONSIDERS

PETITION,

Mr Wang Chia Chung, Vice- Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was recently commissioned to effect the rendition of Weihníwei on Octo ber 1, has returned to Shanghai on board the Dairen Maru from Tsing-

too

In an intenview with a correspon-

which carries with it a seat in the Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines,ent of Kuo Wen news agency,

Facist Grond Counsil

Mr. A. M. Green, 1.C.S., who has long experience of trade matters, has been appointed Deputy High Commissioner for India.

Many district councils in France as well as municipal councils of the largest citice, war veterans' associa tions and other bodies have sont their congratulations to M. Briand Africa House, which won the Gold for his work-at-Goueva aiking Medal of the Royal Institute oftim to continue his policy of peace British Architects as the beat Lon in spite offprovocations. don building of its year (1923) and is situated in Kingsway, has been sold to the client of no estate agency in St. James's.

The Rt. Rev. Neville Stuart Tal bot, Bishop of Pretoria, has been appointed. Bishop of Newcastle, N.SW, to fill the vacancy caused by the death at the Lainbeth Con- ference of the Rt. Rov, George Merrick Long.

The Soviet Republic of Tadshikist an, has decided to celebrate Novem- ber 7, next, as the tenth anniversary of the day on which the revolution brought about the dethronement of the Emir of Bucharn and the Chan of Chiva.

The British India 8.N. Co., Ltd. has decided in fature to make Southampton its passenger base for the outward service to Bombay Karachi, Hitherto ships on this run have returned from Antwerp to London to pick up passengers.

Mr. Stewart-Richardson has been adopted as a candidate by the United Empire Party for the South Paddington bye-election, the vacancy for which has been created by the death of Commander W. D. King in the recent yacht disaater off the coast of Cornwall.

Tenders for the construction of the tunnel under the Scheldt, have been opened at Antwerp. The estimated duration of the work varies in the tendere between two and four years. The highest tender was for about Fen. 496,000,000 and the lowest Fes. 189,000,000.

Roparts in well-informed eircles in Washington state that the pres- sure of public opinion supported by the urgent need of obtaining credits will compel the Soviet, Government to recognize the Russian debts to the United States. These debts are estimated at over. G.8500,000,000.

As the result of acgotiations be tween the Indian Radio Telegraph Co., Mr. Muchida, head of the Japan Wireless Service, who is at present in India, and the Indian Government, it is probable that a beam wireless service will be esta lishe next year between Indian and Japan.

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Meeting in their semi-annual con- ference at Salt Lake City, Utah, meinbers of the Mormon Church re affirmed their stand on behalf of continued enforcement of the national prohibition law. They lis- tened to reports showing the pro- gress of the church in various parts of the world.

In connection with the death of Miss Mary Milward, aged 70, of White Horso-lane, South Norwood, S.E., whose body was found by a neighbour in the passage of the house in which she lived alone, it is stated that her brother had been a missionary in China for 40 years, but is now living in Glasgow.

Licut-Colonel 8 de V. Julius, who was taken prisoner at Kut, and afterwards commanded the Royal Sussex Regiment at Singa- pore, died at Millbank Military Hospital last month at the age of 54. After the war he served with the British military mission in Russia under General Denkin.

Last week new venture in Franco German commercial co- operation was founded in Paris in the form of a Franco-Gorman Colonial Co., Ltd., capitalized at 5,000,000 Francs with an eventual The annual report of the British increase up to 10 million Francs and Foreign Bible Society. says and intended to increase the ex-that the circulation of the Bible in charge of French colonial for Japan wag over 335,000 larger than German industrial products ns in the previous year. In China needed in the French colonies. -- the circulation was 5.306,000, an increase of 1,354,000 on the pre- vious year. Over 6,600,000 were printed for the Society in China.

Six people were killed and 30 were injured in a railway accident near Paris last week. A passenger train bound for Nantes collided with a number of empty wagone left on the line under the, Pont, Cardinet: A number of passengers got out of the train to see the ex- tent of the damago when another train of wagens going in the dices tion of the St. Lazare station ran

them down..

Arrangements have been made between Sir Henry Lunn of the Royal Institute of Publ Health and the mayor of Frankfort for the holding in the coming spring of a congress of the members of the Institute under the chair- manabip of the Marquess of Road- ing, the former Viceroy of India. The congress will sit for one week and will discuss questions of mo dern municipal hygiene.

Merchants at Aberdeen, Scotland, hearing of the arrival of a Russian ship with 750 tons of oats, decided to forbid the unloading of the cargo. The executive committes of the National Union of Scottish Farmers decided to send an appeal to all merchants and mill owners requiring them to boycott foreign imported cereals, the distribution of which must have the worst con sequences for. national wheat stooks,

THE SPANISH PRESS CENSORSHIP.

CORRESPONDENT IMPRISONED FOR EXAGGERATION."

Sehor Carballo, correspondent of the Buedos Ayres newspaper La Faciun, st Corunna, has been im- prisoned and fined £12 and indicted for attempting to transmit news to his paper on the events that took placo recently at Corunna, when

The scientific technical committee of the municipality in Leningrad has decided against the proposed re- moval and destruction of the famous "Alexander Column" on the square in front of the Czar's palace as well as of a number of other monuments erected under the Crarist régime, including the statues of Katharina. 11. and Nikolai I. They will how a political meeting was held by ex- ever get fitting satirical inscriptions Ministers of the dictatoralup who given to the are now constituting a new national famous statue of Car Alexander Monarchist Union party The Gor III, a work of the prominent Rus-ernment complain that the corre sian sculptor Prince Paul Trubetz- spondent exaggerated the facts

This action by the Government is koi.

felt to he inconsistent with the announcement that they were pre. pared to lift the Press censorship. A Cabinet Council appointed a committee, to draft conditions on which censorship will be lifted.

similar to the

Mr. Wang said the people in Wei- haiwei are, the typical Chinese: simple in their living and honest in mind. After a period 30 years, of British rule, the people were overjoyed in seeing Liukungtao. again under Chinese administration, Before the rendition, added' Mr. Wang, the Commission had taken great paina over the question of garrison, in case an unruly military unit should molest local residents. The arrival of 300 well-trained Chinese marines helped the Com- mission to solve the proposition most satisfactorily.

From October 1 to 3 the rendi- tion took the form of matters of general importance enly. For de tails the Commission, had left Messrs. Chu Chu Shih Ohuan, Kuo Tru Kuan and Fan Tau Pao tá von. sult with the British Consul there.

Customs Office Opened. Continuing, Mr. Wang declared that the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce had petitioned the Com mission on the following points:- (1) under the British administr tion all the local taxes were used for the locality; (2) the taxation on all commodities was very light generally one per cent, only Op behalf of the Chinese merchants, the Chamber asked that the British administration should be copied. The matter has been referred to the Ministry of Foreign Affaira for consideration, said Mr. Wang.

In Mr. Wang's opinion, after the rendition is accomplished a Cus- toms office will be opened in Wei- haiwei under the control of Chefoo Customs. In addition there will be & salt revenue office.

FRENCH TOURISTS FIRED ON.

NERVOUS ITALIAN FRONTIER

GUARDS.

The Nice correspondent of the Echo de Paris recently announced that a party of French tourists, two men and two women, were fired at by. Italian soldiers when they were crossing the Irontier near Borcon, The Echo de Paris says that the tourists were afterwards treated with brutal rudeness. They appear to have crossed the frontier at the wrong point. Although they were in possession of their pass. ports and had every right to go into Italy, they suddenly heard shots and hid behind trees, and were eventually led to the military post, where they ought to have shown their passports. They were allowed to proceed, and the inci- dent cannot have been very serious except in so far as it adds Cumula tive evidence of the brutal and hasty methods of nervous frontier guards under Fascism.

The Liberté, which is itself almost Fazeist in outlook, was at pains to xplain away the incident and to com protest against attempts to " promise the efforts of diplomats " by laying stress on international, incidents. Perhaps there would he Loss need for diplomacy if there were lower incidents.

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