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AVIATOR BROPHY

SAFE.

FORCED DOWN AND RETURNS TO FOOCHOW."

(minovan BEOTER'S AGENCY.]

CHINA'S FOREIGN POSTAL RATES.

GENERAL INCREASE FROM FEBRUARY FIRST.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

SHANGHAI, Jan. 27.

Tạ be effective from February 3, foreign letter rates will be increas

Foochów, Jan. 27, Mr. G. W. Brophy arrived here Farly this afternoon and called on the British Consul, when he reported one-third. ed that he had been forced down nem Diongloh, south-east of Foo chow, owing to bad weather and ice forming on the wings of his

propellor

on

waa

machine. The

slightly Jamaged landing, but tho machine is intact.

The repairs are expected to take three days, when Mr. Brophy will proceed to Canton.

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He hopes to take off from Canton for Manila on Saturday.

Welcome Preparations at Manila.

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MANILA, JB. 27. Eleventh-hour proparations for elaborate reception for Mr. Draphy have been dampened by the absence of receipt of news of his arrival at Canton.

Those sponsoring the reception are uneasy, as the jer had not been heard of by three o'clock this morning. Queries to Canton have brought no reply.

The parcel post to Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Korea, Kwantung Lensed Territory and Formosa will bo doubled, and other foreign coun-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1931.

REHABILITATION OF

SILVER.

WORLD. CRISIS PURELY ARTIFICIAL.

جب

(TANQVGH RENTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Jan. 27.

COMMONWEALTH TREASURER.

INDIA'S LIBERATOR UNEMPLOYMENT IN

OPPOSITION MAY REFUSE RECOGNITION.

ENJOYS LIBERTY.

DECLARES HE HAS AN OPEN MIND ON SITUATION.

{THROUGH REUTER’6. AGENCY.].

CANBERRA, Jan. 26, The Labour caucus has ratified

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(THROUGH REUYER'S AGENCY.]

FOONA, Jan. 20. Mahatma Gandhi was released

Gandhi Interviewed.

CHINCHWAD, Near Poons,

Mr. J. F. Darling, director of the Midland Bank, on the "Rehabilita. Mr. Theodore's re-admission into from prison this morning. tion of Silver," at the luncheon of the Cabinet. the Royal Empire Society, said the cause of the present exampled world economic crisis was purely artificial, namely, an unprecedented discrepancy between the relative value of gold and silver. medy was to restore equilibrium by CHINA'S RAILWAY BOND raising the poise of grotesquely undervalued silver by backing it with gold.

tries increased one-third.

DEFAULT.

LIQUIDATION OF OUTSTAND. ING DEBTS,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]

LONDON, Jan. 20.

In the House of Commons to-day, replying to Mr. A. M. Samuel ini regard to the Chinese default in respect of railway bonds, including the Hukuang, Tientsin Puków, Lunghai, and the Canton-Kowloon Railways, Dr. Hugh Dalton stated that the proposals aimed at the general liquidation of outstanding debts which China submitted to the Nanking Conference in November, and was now considering.

Sir Miles Lampson, the Ambassa. dor, had circularised all British ereditors with a view to obtaining

full list of their claims.

Mr. Brophy left Shanghai in a Waco, Model "F" open cockpit biplane on Friday, intending to make a non-stop flight to Canton en route to Manila, as a test flight for the establishment of air lines.

Sir William Davison asked Dr. Owing to adveien weather he was forced to land at Chuchow, about Dalton to see that the £3,000,000 of 200 miles south of Shanghai. Ho the Boxer Indemnity was not part- resumed the flight and reacheded with until these Chinese obliga- Foochow safely, but since leaving tions were fulfilled. that place thero has been no further newa of the airman.

Bad Weather Conditions. Mr. Brophy's machine is fitted with wheel brakes, which would enable him to land in about about 40 yards-less if a fairly strong wind is blowing—and although the country over which he is flying is rugged and rough, it seems possible that he is standing by for some reason, probably until weather con 'ditions are moré favourable.

Mr. Brophy was expected to reach Canton at two o'clock on Mon-

day afternoon, but his prolonged abance in leading to much anxiety for his anfety. It seems probable, however; that he has made a forced landing somewhere and is await- ing favourable conditions before remming the flight.

.

CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY DEFRAUDED. LOSS ESTIMATED AT FIFTEEN

A MILLION DOLLARS.

(Wah Tez Yat Pao,)

MURDEN, Jan. 27. A system of fraud by some officials at Changchan Station, on the Chinese Eastern Railway, on the freight receipts of the company has been discovered, and as a result two high railway officials have been detained.

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It is alleged that this plot has been carried on during the past six years, and the total loss to the Company is esumated at about

$15,000,000.

The lead office of the Chinese Eastern Railway Company is sp. -pointing a special committee of in

vestigation.

Dr. Dalton replied that he did not remember that that point had boch advanced on behalf of Conserva- tives in the recent Boxer Indemnity debate.

ITALIAN CATHOLIC PRIEST RELEASED..

NEWS OCCUPIES MONTH TO REACH PEIPING.

(THROUGH REGTER's-AGENCY.]

PEIPING, Jan. 27. The Apostolic Delegation. this morning received a telegram from Monsignor Balconi, dated the 17th instant, stating that Father Mazzoli

had been released.

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The message states that he was captured on October 12, hence news of the capture took more than a

nonth to reach Poining.

It was on November 17 that news reached Peiping stating that the

Catholic Mission at Kulupa, Shonsi, where there is A seminary and orphanage, was pillaged by bandits, who carried off Fathers Mazzoli and Filin and a Chinese priest named Tchang.

INVASION OF KANSU. WU PEI FU NOT CONCERNED.

PEIPING, Jan. 27.

Wu Poi Fu's representative, Mr. Wang, who recently arrived here, declares that the reported invasion of Kanna by the Szechucnese troops has no connection whatever with Wu Pei Fu.

"

He also states that ho will pro- coed to Nanking for the purpose ernment the real state of affairs of explaining to the Central Gov. on the Szechuen-Kansu border.

SHENSI, FAMINE PROBLEM. SCHEME FOR COLONISATION

OF MANCHURIA,

The re

"Unless we can raise the stan- dard of Asin, the East will inevit- ably drag our standard of living i down. The most effective way to raine the standard in the East is to restore silver to its rightful time honoured position as the co-equal of gold at a given ratio in the money of the world."

Mr. Darling concluded by observ❘ be effected by the nations of the ing that this restoration could only world agreeing to issue their cur- rency notes against both gold and silver at a given ratio, and he urged the British Empire to take the lead in this matter..

FRANCE'S CABINET,

OFFICIAL LIST OF MINISTERS,

[AGENDE NAVAS.]

PAR16, Jan. 27. The French Cabinet has been constituted as follows:-

Premier and Home, Affairs--A.

Laval

Foreign Affairs-M. Briand. Finance M, Flandin, Marino M, Dumont, War M. Maginot. Agriculture-M. Tardien, Colonies-M. Reynaud.

'(THROUGH REUTER'S ACKNOY] Negro Included in Ministry.

PAR18, Jan. 27. Mr. Pierre Laval is a butcher's son, who becomes Premier of France at the age of 47.

M. Laval has already made his tory by including a negra in his Ministry, appointing M. Daigne, Deputy for Senegal, as Secretary for the Colonies.

Under-

GENEVA OPIUM COMMITTEE

- VALUABLE INFORMATION

RECEIVED FROM CHINA.

{THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCY.)

GENEVA, Jan. 28.

The Opium Committed to-day |

The caucus agreed to adjourn for three weeks in order to give Mr. Theodore and Mr. Scullin time to prepare a financial policy and ob- tain the Cabinet's approval thereof, Mr. Theodore will not resume the Treasurership inmediately, and it is not yet known what will be the attitude of the Opposition, but there is a possibility of their refusing to recognise him,

Split in Labour Party.

CANBERRA, Jan. 27.

A Labour party split: has arisen over the reappointment of Mr. Theodore.

The caucus only endorsed Mr. Scullin's recommendation by 24 votes to 10 after several hours hot debate.

who was acting Premier during Mr. Mr. Fenton, Minister for Trade,

Scullin's visit to the Imperial Con- Treasurer, and Mr. Anstey, Health ferença, and Mr. Lyons, acting Minister, were in the minority.

Mr. Fenton threatened to resign. Ho told Mr. Scullin that he con- sidered Mr. Theodore's reappoint. ment was a personal slight to him- self and Mr. Lyons.

Mr. Scullin urged him to with hold his resignation in consequence of its weakening effects on the Government's prestige and the con- sequent prospect of a general elec. tion,

Mr. Fonton, however, later again tendered his resignation.

It appears that Mr. Scullin over estimated the Labour backing of Mr. Theodore.

In the meantime, Mr. J. M. Gabb, a member of the House of Repre- sentatives for Queensland, resigned from the party as a protest against Mr. Theodore's inclusion in the Cabinet.

ITALIAN OPERATIONS IN LIBYA,

OCCUPATION AFTER TWENTY- FOUR DAYS FIGHTING;

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

Rowe, Jan. 26. It is stated that Italian troops have completed the occupation of Libya as the result of the caplure of Kufra, after 24 days of fighting over a 12-mile front.

One hundred natives were killed and a number were taken prisoner, while a quantity of munitions was captured.

The Italians lost two officers and

wounded.

two native soldiers filled and 16

BERMUDA'S NEW GOVERNOR.

began the examination of the list of SIR T. A. CUBITT APPOINTED, seizures of drugs between Novem- ber, 1920, and June, 1930.

{TOBUĻON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Sir Malcolm Delevingne drew at-

LONDON, Jan. 26. tention to a large seizure of Persian

H.M. the King has approved the opium in Hong Kong in September, and emphasised the value of the appointment of Major-General Sir Thomans Aatley Cubitt, C.B., information obtained from China C.G., D.5.0., to be Governor with regard to consignments of and Commander-in-Chief of. Ber- drugs.

Ho said this would be enhanced muda in succession to the late Bir if the Chinese authorities without Louis Bols.

Jan, 20.

In an interview with Reater, Gandhi, who was awaiting a train to take him to Bombay, declared that he had an open mind on the present political situation, but did not wish to commit himself until he had conferred with his colleagues, especially Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and other Round Table delegates on their return from London.

Gandhi laid stress on the deair ability of the immediate release of all political prisoners sentenced for carrying out his civil disobedience- campaign.

T

Gandhi Garlanded at Bombay, BOMBAY, Jan. 27. Shouts of "Long Live Gandhi !" from the crowds greeted Gandhi and Mrs. Naidu on their arrival,

The procession to the house of an staying was held up constantly to Indian merchant where Gandhi is

GREAT BRITAIN.

LAND. VALUES TAX AND NATIONAL LOAN.

(THROUGH REUTERʼḤ'AŬENCY.]

LONDON, Jan. 27. The newspapers give prominence ta's resolution which a private meeting of the Liberal party last evening decided to lay on the table enlling on the Government to adopt an anemployment programme, in- cluding a tax on land values and a big national loan....

ROUND - TABLE CONFERENCE.

PRIME MINISTER'S STATE- MENT IN COMMONS.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE

Ruony, Jan. 207. For the first time since its can. clusion tho work of the Round Table Conference was discussed in- the House of Commone to-day; when the Prime Minister, Mr. Itamsay MacDonald, who prosided at the Conference, made a state- ment,

The Viceroy-elect of India, Lord Willingdon, listened in the gallory to the speeches.

It is suggested that if Mr. P.

The Prime Minister emphasiao, Snowden, Chancellor of the Exche that the present position of the quer, who hitherto has been the Indian problem was the result of chief opponent of a loan, can be evolution and had been reached persuaded to agree, the Governable canexquences of steps later. ment may accept the resolution and thus ensure an extension of its term of office with the continued support of the Liberal party.

ACCIDENT TO PRINCESS

BEATRICE.

FRACTURES BONES IN A FOREARM.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE,]

Ruony, Jan. 27.

from Kensington Palace stated that A communiqué issued yesterday

Friday Princess Beatrice, aunt of King George, slipped in her room and in falling fractured both bones of her left forearm.

enable the Mahatma to receive on garlands from his admirers. "If You Love Me, Go Home and Spin Mo Yarn.",

LATER. The procession accompanying Gandhi was so huge that progress was made, at a anail's pace.

Gandhi at length appealed to his admirers to disperse.

The response was immediate, but the vast crowds besieged the house where Gandhi is staying. He re peatedly appeared on a balcony and Gnally appealed: "If you love me, go home and spin me yarn."

Her Highness is making satis factory, progresa.

It was stated this morning the Princess Beatrice had passed a somewhat restlese night, but that her condition was satisfactory.

TRADE DISPUTES' BILL.

step by step,bench with its inovit He specially reminded Mr. Winston Churchill, who we so critical of ecquel to statements made and the present policy, that it was a

stages reached when other Govern monts, of which Mr. Churchill had boon member, were in power, they

The Prime Minister" paid tribute to the Indian delegates who cams, of the Conference at grasvá. inconvenience, loss and riakto thair reputations. He said that the raw material of the Conference was the Simon Report, for which India owed a debt which in future sho would be better able to appreciate,

What they meant to do and what they had done was to agree

dia Government and made the which should be applied to the In in advance upon the principles

foundation of any constitution ultimately drafted. Everything was provisional and the stability and success of the work done do pended on how the structuro jas. à whole was to be built. Ha be lieved most sincerely that a struc ture could be built. But the first elago was to remove Indian pro- blems from the field of suspicion, and goodwill and to get them to 1o get Indians to accept candour,

see exposed in all ite naked weak- ness the policy of so-called pass- ive resistance, which was only a sort of moral cloak for Jawlessness, At this moment, said the Prime Minister, the Indian represents- Gandhi, in an interview, said that,

tives are on their gay home sworn even if after consulting with bia

champions of the work which has friends from the Round Table Con-

boon dong, convinced of our-ein- cerity, advocates of the vessation ference it was found that Mr. Mac-

of strife, and sworn to do their Donald's statement warranted co

best to maugurate a segime' of operation by Congress the right to

goodwill and co-operation in-find- picket could not he abandoned,

ing solutions of the various pro It is now regarded as practical-bloms, which presented themselves nor the right of starving millions to manufacture salt."

ly certain that the Government at St. James's Palace. The Gov. He pointed out that if those will avoid defeat when the division crnment was now considering how. rights wore recognised mrst of the is taken to-morrow night on the

the work was to be carried on. Ordinances would have to be with-

He already had seen the drawn.

Vicoroy-elect, and he hoped to ap-. It is understood that the chief proach the leaders of other par- Liberal whip, Sir Archibald Sinties, since he felt that it would be clair, anticipates fewer than 12 Liberals will vote against the second reading, the majority of the party abstaining.

LATER,

Gandhi was of opinion that if the release of the Congress leaders is to be effective, then the release of all passive resistors was a necessary condition.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Rucny, Jan. 27.

At his own request, Mahatma Gandhi was not released from Yeravda Gael at Peons until 11 o'clock last night.

GOVERNMENT IN NO DANGER OF DEFEAT.

(BRITISH WIRELEGG SERVICE.]

RUGBY, Jan. 27.

Trade Disputes' Bill,

Sir Herbert Samuel, one of the iraders of the party, at Port Sun- light last night declared that ite second reading defeat would be regarded by the working claaS DE a sign that Parliament was not even willing to listen to such a case the veteran leader of the Congress opinion that no issue of principle Accompanied by Mra. Naidu, as they might present. He was of women, ho proceded by motor-car warranting the ending of the pre- to a wayside station 15 miles away, seat Parliament was at stake.. where he joined the train for Bombay.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] Mayor of Calcutta Eeleased.

Calcutta, Jan, 06. Chandra Bose, the 'Mayor of Cal- cutta and a prominent Congress leader, who was again arrested yesterday following an illegal pro cession on the Maidan, was released from prison only on January 24, having served a short sentence for defying a police order..

......

Bevere Sentence on Mayor. delay sent particulars, of such cases [Sir, Thomas Cubitt, who is 00

LATER.--- to the Governments of the countries years of age, has only once pre

Chandra Bose has been sentenced from which the drugs had been viously held a Colonial appoint.

ment of this nature in 1914, when to six months' rigorous imprison. despatched.

ho acted na Deputy Commissioner ment. of Somaliland. Protectorate. entered the Army in 1861 (from the Military Academy at Woolwich) and served in West. Africa" until the European War, when he command. ed a division with; the rank ́ ́ ́of

Dr. Woo Kai Seng, on behalf of China, undertook to communicate Sir Malcolm Delevingne's observa tions to the Chinese Government authorities would do their utmost and added that the Chinese

in this matter,

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Major-General. From 1920 to 1924 he was General Officer Command- ing the Presidency and Assam Die OPIUM HAUL AT NEW YORK. trict; and in 1928 was appointed to the command of the Second Divi sion.]

HIDDEN IN MAST ON RABY 'CASTLE.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 Six hundred ball-pound tins of opium, valued at over G. $120,000, were seized by Customs officials during an inspection of the British motor vessel Raby Castle, from Port Said

The opium was concealed in the

(antrian WIRELESS SERVICE)

Situation in India.

Roosy, Jan. 27.

preciation of the situation up to The Government of India's ap the 25th of January states that cognises that the Prime Minister's moderate opinion. generally re:1 declaration of policy at the con- clusion of the Round Table Confer- endo has created a now situation, in

to bring a new constitution to fulfilment.

AMERICAN. SAMOA, which all parties can co-operate

BILL TO CREATE NEW GOVERNMENT,

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The Nationalists in the Legisla. tive Assembly have accepted the statement as welcome and gratify ing, and approve of the principles underlying it subject to further consideration after the details are evolvo. The Muslims in the As sombly acknowledge the efforts of the Britisk magammest á

PRESIDENT OF CONTROL

YUAN. *

EXPECTED TO LECTURE IN

NANKING, Jan. 20. General Chang Haush Liang, in a HONG KONG.

telegram to Nanking, proposed to (Wah Tar Yat Pao.)

Bolve tho famine problem of Shansi, Kanen and other provinces through CANTON, Jan. 9. an extensive migration into Man- Mr. Tai Chi Tao, the President churia, where the land is fertile and of the Control Yuan, will leave population thin. The large tracts Canton for the North in a few of waste land there can provide a days. He is reported to have ful-comfortable living for 200,000 fami. rolled his sisting in the South, the line, he paid This scheme for

settlement of the fun Yat Sen colonization would cost $10,000,000,-1 and of tre king Hollow University affair.

lie Burgusted that Nanking should No errunde, but the for the vocation-of-a-zor florerort full the political animationsmat raise $6,000,000, leaving the balance crew, mostly Chinese, are being ment in American Samon, and or India, and accept, the necessity of tending American citizenship to all | cortain safeguards during the to be appropriated from the six kept under surveillance. provinces partaking in the emigra. The owners of the ship are liable Samoans, and establishing an or period of transition. They ap tiong MLEKATAN KE to a fine equal to the value of the ganised Government with a single prove in particular of the Prime Nanking has not as yet given a opium, if it is proved that, they bouse Legislature and, formulating Minister's announcement regarding reply to General Chang's proposal, were aware of the shipment. a Bill of Rights,

the guarantees for minorities.

It is also reported that he has accepted an invitation from a Hong Kong Chinese educational circle to give a lecture on an educational aubject when he visits Hong Kong en roule for Nanking.

[REUTER'S' AMERICAN SERVICE.]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. The Senate passed a Bill to the torre de Repitanteres providing

WRIGHT'S

great calamity, if the admirable. cooperation between them which was conducted on independent and. non-political lines during the Con ference was broken in further stages of the negotiatious.

Doaling with thi work of the Conference the Prime Minis ter emphasised that the safe. guards contained in the pro- posed constitution were not the

but only in the event of emergency. result of distrust and were not. meant for use in ordinary times,

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