CANADIAN LOAN FOR CHINA.
REHABILITATION OF FINANCE IN ORIENT.
[REUTER'S
B-AMERICAN SERVICE]
OTTAWA, Jan. 4. Mr. Stovohe, Minister for Trade, referring to Mr. Bennett's spesch on December 31, concerning which he stated that Canada was taking steps to arrange a large loan for China to enable the marketing of wheat and other Canadian producta in the Oriant.
Mr. Stevens laid stress on the necessity for co-operative action with other countries to rehabilitato the financing of Oriental countries.
He said that the proposal had secured a strong measure of sup port among the leading bankers, of the world. The raising of the stan. dards of Eastern civilisation would involve an increase in their buying power, thus supplying a market for commodities in Canada, North American and European countries.
REDS FIRE ON BRITISH WARSHIP.
MANTIS INFLICTS HEAVY CASUALTIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'B AGENCY.]
PEIPINO, Jan, 3. Eight hundred Red troops attack- ed the British gunboat H.M.S. Mnatis yesterday on the Yangtze. Opening with heavy fire, the Mantis replied with great effect, inflicting many casualties but sus- taining none,
DESECRATION AT WEIHAIWEI.
REMOVAL OF TABLETS AND MONUMENTS.
(THROUGH 'RELTET:'S AGENCY.]
Perino, Jan, 3.
The Chinese in Welbaiwel, since
ENGLAND-PEIPING
FLIGHT.
AMY JOHNSON LANDS AT BERLIN.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).
BERLIS, Jan, 2.
Miss Amy Johnson landed at Cologne at 2.38 p.in, to-day after a flight from Liege through snow.";
She was to continue to Berlin on Saturday, weather permitting.
Several Hours Late at Berlin, BERLIN, JAD. 4. Miss Amy Johnson has arrived from Cologne.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1931.
BRITAIN'S COAL DISPUTE.
CONFERENCE DEFINITELY BREAKS DOWN.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT" }
LONDON, Jan. 4.
The conference of miners and
owners under the auspices of the joint Conciliation Board broke down. yesterday afternoon, the miners de- finitely rejecting the owners' offer.
Government Intervention.
LONDON, Jan. 3. The Government is intorvoning in the South Wales conl dispute.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Priso Minister, Mr. W. Graham, Presi dent of the Board of Trade, and She was several hours late owing. E. Shinwell, Minister for Mines, will discuss the situation with the
to bad weather.
PARIS-SAIGON AIR LINE.
OPENED ON SATURDAY. AT PARIS. (THROUÓN REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Pan16, Jan. 4. The Paris-Saigon air line was opened by the departure at 10.10 this morning of a three-engined motoplane.
The journey is scheduled to take 12 days..
NEW YORK-PARIS FLIGHT. AMERICAN LADY PILOTS HEN
OWN MONOPLANE.
miners representatives on Monday in London.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE. Conciation Board's Meeting.
Rugby, Jan. 3,
RAILWAY DISASTER EUROPE STALKED BY DEATH OF A GREAT FRENCH SOLDIER.
AT CARLISLE.
THREE KILLED AND TWELVE INJURED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Jan 3 The Edinburgh-London express, was derailed at a sharp curve near
Carlisle,
The engine buried its neso in the embankment and the front coaches were telescoped.
Four were killed and 12 injured
LATEH Thora are only three dead as 'n result of the Carlisle disaster.
Two men have been identified as railway employees, as they had rail
WAR SPECTRE.
PEACE AND SECURITY PROSPECTS NOT ROSY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Jah. 4. At the beginning of the thirteenth year after the Armistice Europe is still being stalked by the spectre of war.
This is eloquently illustrated in the Sunday papers' first appearance in 1931. '.
The Sunday Times anys that for Europe the year 1931 will be the turning point in her history, and the paper does not consider that the immediate outlook and pros.
MARECHAL DE TRANCE PASSES AWAY PEACEFULLY.
BRITISH MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY.
THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY
PARIS, Jan. 3. Marshal Joseph Jacques Cessaire Joffre, OM, Hou, G.C.B., Mare chat-de-France, and Commander-in Chief of the French Armies from 1015 to 1017, passed away at 8.23 this morning, in his 78th year.
Died Very Peacefully. Madame Joffre, grief-stricken, scated in an armchair beside her daughter and son-in-law, members of the dead Marshal's staff, three doctors and a chaplain, was present nt her husband's death bed.
The chaplain gave the Absolution peacefully.
I emphasize this fact because there appears to be some sort of curious, all-provailing belief in the publis mind that army headquarters are abodes of luxury.
The Generalissino arrives at his bureau, at 6.30 every morning, and at 7 he has a conference with tho six leading officials of the General Staff, or Grand Etat Major, and his. two sides, both generals, and thres other officers. At this conference all the reports and despatches of the night are gone through, and dis
cussed, and orders given for tho day. Lunch is served always at 11.
way vouchers in their pockets, and poets of peace' and security are too to Marshal Joffre, who died very and always consists of the same
ono woman, whose body was found rosy near the two men, but she has not been identified.
The disaster occurred at a sharp To-day the South Wales Coalcurvo on the line facing a football Conciliation Board inoets at Car- diff, and strong hopes are express ed that a settlement will bo reach ed. to end the stoppage affecting 140,000 miners since Thursday.
Representatives of the Mines Department will by in Cardiff in case their good offices are requirel.
field, in which soldiers from Car- lielo Castle were playing,
"The first two coaches were tolo. scoped.
LATER.
The body of the woman killed in the railway smash at Carlisle has been identified as that of Mrs. Janet GERMAN COAL MINERS ON Haworth, of Clapham.
STRIKE.
WORKERS IN TWENTY MINES AFFECTED..
J
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
EBBEN, Jan. 2. [LEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
Miners from 20 mines in the Ruhr have struck against a reduction ja NEW YORK, Jau. 3.
wagce. Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieutenant
Situation Becomes Worse. " Maclaren started this morning on a
COLOGNE, Jan. 3. flight to Parie vid Bermuda and
Notwithstanding the union lead- in the monoplane the Azores
Trade Wind,' fitted with poners' effects to keep the men work- ing, the strike situation is becoming a widow, Mrs. Beryl Hart, who is is the holder of a pilot's licence and ows the "Trade Wind."
toons.
This is the first attempt at a trans-Atlantic flight carrying goods,
LATER.
worsc.
A high percentage of the 300,000, workers under normal conditions are idle.
An ugly aspect is developing due to the Communiste picketing, in- A message from Bermuda states cluding women dressed in men's that anxiety is felt over the non-clothing forcibly preventing volun arrival of the monoplane "Trade teers to reach the pithonds. Wind,"
-The visibility yesterday was very noor.
"Trade Wind" Lands at Hampton Roads.
There have been frequent armed clashes with the police, in one case a man being killed and several wounded. y
EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE.
NUMBER OF HOUSES DESTROYED.
· [1HROUGĄ “REUZER'S AGENOT.]
ATHENS, Jan. 4.
An earthquake destroyed a num ber of houses at Corinth,
The inhabitants were thrown into a panic, and they remained in the open-air..
There were no fatalities,
PANAMA GOVERNMENT
OVERTHROWN.
MISSIONARIES IN NIGERIA. REBELS ARREST PRESIDENT.
On all sides, the economic, de- pression has produced internal re-
LATER. actions which tend more towards
Messages of sympathynt the violence than composure.??
death of Marshal Joffre are stream The paper declares that nobodying in, and include those from Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and the British wants war, and urges the mobilisa Government, nssuring M. Briand tion of public opinion during the that the Marshal had established & coming months so as to make its sure and permanent place in every British heart"; also the British voice decisively heard when the Admiralty and the War Office. Disarmament Conference meets,
The Sunday Observer asserts that the year has opened with increased diplomatic uneasiness in Europe.
The paper quotes the German Chancellor's. New Year day's de- mand for "equal security for all antions," and concludes: Never. before has the issue been so clearly foreshadowed whether Germany is to be driven from Geneva by Geneva's own failure."
Reynolds Illustrated News gives
prominence to an interview with Viscount Cecil: "I think that the
year 1931 will be a very critical Jear."
Viscount Cecil says: "Probably before the end of the year the ques- tion of disarmament will become
very acute."
Weynolds Ilustrated News, in the course of a leading article on the above, says that Viscount Cecil's warning will be justified speedily when the Council of the League of Nations will shortly be fheed with. one of the thorniest questions, namely, the ill-treatment of the
minorities in Europe.
NORFOLK (V.), Jan. 3.
The monoplane "Trade Wind" the taking over of the territory landed at the naval base. at Hamp from Great Britain, have been pull-ton Roads at 9.25 p.m.
ing down many tablets and monu- ments erected under the British régime.
were
Some were put up by Chinese to
others ex-Governors, and crected to the officers and then of various regiments who died there.
ANTIQUES IN CHINA.
NO REMOVAL CONTEMPLATED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.Į
LONDON, Jan. 3.
In a letter to the Times, Dr. Perey Stafford Allen, M.A., D.Litt., President of Corpus Christi, Ox- ford, since 1924, an intimate friend of Sir Aurel Stein, the antiquarian, expresses the conviction that the.
remarks. derogatory to new China" attributed to Sir Aurel Stein are fantastic, ridiculous, and baseless, and suggests that someone invented thom
He points out that Sir Aurel Stein had given his formal assur ance that no antiques would be removed from China without Chi
Bose consent.
FAMOUS AVIATOR
CRASHES.
·CAPT. BARNARD AND LORD
LOVELACE INJURED. (THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.] ;
TUNIS, Jan. 3.
STONED BY HOSTILE. NATIVES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LAGOS, Jan. 3.
Five European Wesleyan mission- aries, three of whom were women, were motoring near Opobo, East Nigeria, when they were attacked by natives.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN-BERVICE]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 The Minister of Panama has been advised that the Government of Panama is overthrown..
American Pressman› Killed.
LATER.
One lady was injured by a stone
The rebels have proclaimed Har and was removed to the hospital atmadio Arins as President of the Fort Harcourt.
Republic, and demanded Arosemea. resignation.
It is reported that natives have Captain Barnard and Lord Love-fired arrows at motor care travel- laco, accompanied by an American Jing in the Opobo area, which was mechanic, on a flight to Capetown the scene of rioting in December, from England, crashed near Tripoli..1020,
All were badly injured.
LONDON-CAPETOWN AIR ROUTE.
U.S. INTERVENTION.
UNPOPULAR.
HUSH-HUSH POLICY IN.
NICARAGUA, OPENING ON MARCH FIFTH.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]. (BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Jan. 3,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. The Imperial Airwaye announce The deaths of eight. American that 9,070 miles of the North Africa Marines in Nicaragua on January section of the London-Capetown 1 led Senator King (Democrat, of air route will be opened on Thurs- Utah) to assert that "the United day, March 5, with an inaugural States has been in the habit of flight from Cairo to Mwanza, Tan- intervening too much in foreign Banyika Territory,
The flight through from London to Mwanza, a distance of 5,100 miles, will take nine days against 24 days by surface transport.
Inads."
Mr. King announced list he would move a resolution on Mon day demanding the absolute with- drawal, both in the political and military senso, from Nicaragua."
In spite of the fact that the affray blow to United States prestige in Central America, only the barest details have been allowed to leak
The North Africa section between Cairo and Khartoum will be oper Siddeley Argosy type, and the short Oriental scholar, explorer, and Calcutta Dying boats will carry the route to Kishumu nad on Mwanza along the Nile and African out.
The Navy Department, apparent- It is by May, 1931, that ly, has instituted a sort of uboficial
hoped the full 8,000 miles from London to censorship. Capetown will be in operation, bringing London within 7 days of Capetown.
Sir Aurel Stein, the eminentated by machines of the Armstrong-in Nicarague is considered a severe
was
archeologist, is the great authority on Chinese art and antiquities, and engaged during 1900-8 on arahaological and geographical explorations in Central Asin and China.]
CHINESE TARIFF ON CIGARETTES.
FOUR THOUSAND, B.A.T.
ON HALF TIME
THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)
LANDON, Jan. 4. Fourthousand employees of the British American Tobacco Company at Liverpool have been put on half time as a direct consequence of the new Chinese tariff
BRITAIN'S DIRECTOR OF AVIATION.
LT. COL SHELMERDINE
APPOINTED.
RED CROSS DAY.
CAMPAIGN THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE:
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Jaa 3.
The arrested ex-President is at Chiari.
At least 10 persons were killed and 20 wounded during the attack on the Palace, including an Ameri- can newspaper correspondent, who was mortally injured.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2. A message from Balboa states that rebels attacked the Presidential Palace, in Panama City, by aur prise and made a prisoner of the President, Senhor Florencio Arono-
mena.
menu of egge, and cutlets, alter" The body will lie iu state in the which, at 12 o'clock, there is n
other conference. At 1 the General, Ecole de Guerre.
goes out till 4. He eithor walks or drives, generally in the adjacent woods. At 3.30 there is the third conference, attended by the same people, and at 9 punctually, no mai- for what happens, the General goos to bed. The rest of the day ho stays in his room poring over the maps. He remains all the time at his Headquarters, savo once a wock, when, he goes to the front to in-. spect the troops or to see generals.. A very efficient telephone service renders more frequent departure from Headquarters unaccesary.
State Funeral
A State funeral has been fixed for January 7.
The remains will be provisionally deposited in Les Invalides Chapel, pending the ascertainment us to whether Marshal Joffre left a re- quest for burial at his country home
at Louvecienner.
The British Ambassador will re. present the King at the funeral: Field Marshals Sir Milne and Lord Allenby, the British Army; Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Wester Wemysa, the Navy, and Air Marshal
His great work in the French Army was the organization of the General Staff when he became Com.
mander-in-Chief July, 1011. To this is due the success of the French armies against the Germans, for the staffs were composed of men who. had worked together for thres years and are employed now ayor Sir country which they know. Hugh Trenchard, the Royal Air from the writing table the impres
Force, “
As that great, grey head roso
There will be detachments of the Bich of the man upon me was that of, massiveness. Uniform caps of Guards, with a band, diso a detach-whatever nationality have the effect of making mica look more or less ment of the Air Force.
His Majesty's Message of alike. The great, head of Joffre,
Sympathy.
the iron chin the kind, rather sad eyes, are quite unlike the photo. graphs and equally unlike our average Frenchman." Père Joffre stupid notion of what we call " the is from Rivesaltes, in the Pryénées Orientales, and he speaks slowly, and with no more gesture than & Scotsman, in the rich accent of the Midi,
Marshal
Joffre re-
LONDON, Jan. 3. His Majesty King George has Downergue expressing his heartfelt despatched a message to President sympathy at the death of Marshal Joffre, which will arouse sorrow particularly in those countries which in 1914 wero allied to France."
Lord Northcliffe's Fan Picture. In a pen-picture of the dead creator of the French General Staff Marshal Joffre, the late Lord Northcliffe, in his book "At the War," wrote:--
Referring to the treatment of Germans in Upper Silesia, the
A visit to General Joffre, aavé paper declares that n clash between Germany and Poland might well set for the presetice of one or two Europe alight and sap the strength.orderlies at the gate, is just an of the League of Nations beyond ordinary visit at an ordinary hotel, recovery, and the paper urges that Pere Joffre, who has the destinica of France in his hands, received me the at the appointed hour to justice must be done at Geneva,
minute, in a tiny room with a long narrow table covered with a white felt top, a room probably sixteen feet long by twelve wide, perfectly plain, and most likely one of the servants' offices in the hotel days of the hotel where his Headquarters are situated
SERIOUS RIOTING IN
RANGOON.
BURMESE AND CHINESE BRAWLING.
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]"
BANGOON, Jan. 3. Serious rioting developed from brawling between Burmese and Chi- nese in the Lamadaw quarter, West Rangoon
The police twice opened fire, three being killed and 25 wounded.
PRINCESS ROYAL ILL. SHOWS SIGNS OF INCREASING Senhor Alfaro Elected President.
WEAKNESS, WASHINGTON, Jan, 3. Senhor Alfa,nister of
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENC1.]. Paustus-in the United States, has
LONDON, Jan. 3. accepted the Presidency of Panama,
A bulletin signed by two doctors a succession to Senhor Florencio Arosemens, who was forced to ab-issued from Portman Square at dicate yesterday, when he was 12.43. stated: stormed in the Presidential Palace [Panama, formerly a department and placed under arrest. of the Republic of Columbia, assort- ed its independence on November 3, 1003, and the de facto Government was on November 13 recognised by the Government of the United States, and afterwards by the other Powers.]
BIG U.S. RAIL MERGER.
PLANS FOR CONSOLIDATION OF PRINCIPAL COMPANIES.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
The Princess Royal, who has been an invalid for some time past on account of her heart, has recent ly shown signs of increasing weak-
ess
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. LABOUR PARTY TO SEPARATE FROM NATIONALISTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY Į
JOHANNESBULO, Jan. 3., The Labour Party Conference, after a discussion lasting 11 hours, has decided to terminate the pact with the Nationalist Party within a
year..!
NEW YORK, Jav, 2. The Presidents of four of the principal Eastern railroade-Now York Central Pennsylvania, Balti- more (Ohio) and Chesapeake (Ohio)-have published details of Kikongor ways the pretpetico.co Tailways in thy Wat; except diewo England into their four systemer.
YER'S AGENUTZdamaccardanco, Sith; the recom-their agreement in regard to the
Red Cross - LONDON, Jan. 2. pire Conference in London yester The Air Ministry announces the day, an Empire Committee has been appointment of Lieut. Col. Shelmer formed to promote an annual, Red dine (Director of Civil Aviation in Cross Day throughout the Empire India) as Director of Avialiot in on May 18, the birthday of Florence the Air Ministry, it succession to Nightingale, and generally to assist the late Bir Sefton Brancker. the Society. With..
The plan has been submitted for the approval of the Inter-State Commerce Commission,
Each of the four enlarged systeros will be worth $2,000,000,000,
TRAGIC NEW YEAR. CELEBRATION. IN U.S. SIX SCORE OF CASUALTIES. [Burcu AMEMOIN GERVICE
क
BAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2. Twenty-two people were killed and 100 injured on the Pacific Const during the New Year celebra- tions
[The late
eeived the G.C.B. in 1914, the Order of Merit from His Majesty King George in 1910, and was created Marechal-de-France. He was made Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies in 1815, which he held until 1917.
The deceased Marshal was educat cl at the College of Perpignan and the Ecole Polytechnic.
A
He joined the French Army S 2nd Lieutenant during the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1, and was made a lieutenant in 1872, Captain in 1870, Majór: in 1889, Lieut.-Colonel in 1894, and Colonel in 1005..
He served in China, Tonkin-China, and he organised the defences of Formosa. He commanded a battery during the siege of, Paris, and. he When I re-visited him the other was made Chief of the French day I found that he had exchanged General Staff in 1914. He had the that very humble apartment for one reputation of being a distinguished rather more suitable to the needs of mathematician, and he hold the a man who has to receive commis- Grand Cross Legion of Honour. sions and deputations as part of He was made a member of the My March to bis daily routine. It is even yet a French Academy in 1918. He wrote simple milieu for the hoad of one a book entitled " of the mightiest forces in the world. Timbuctoo."]
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