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SHANGHAI COUNCIL FATHER TIERNEY'S

ELECTIONS.

-MR. C. H.—ARNHOLD--

UNSUCCESSFUL.

【ronováh revteR'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Mar. 17. The elections to the Municipal Council of the International Settle-

ment resulted as follows:----

Mr. Fukushimaan

1,080 1,080

Mr. Okamoto

Brigadier General Mag.

Naghten A

Mr. Shoppard

Mr. Carney (American)...

EX03 004 84

Mr. Hughes

Mr. Brown

Mr. Bellagi

372 800 855

Mr.

Raven", (American,

700

new candidate) ...... The only unsuccessful candidate

RANSOM.

-TIME-LIMIT EXTENDED A

FORTNIGHT.

(THROUGH NEUTER'S AQEROY,]+

PEPING, Mac. 17.. The Red andits who are holding Father Tierney have extended the time-limit in which additional rassom'ust be paid by a fortnight.

A telegram from Peiping dated March 10 stated that the Kinngsi Government had sent $2,000 io, the Catholic Mission which was to be given to the bandits in order to avert the immediate murder of Father Tierney, of the Columban's Mission, who was captured at Kien chang on November 30.

The bandits were still holding him and demanding $11,000, and was Mr. C. H. Arnold (British) much anxiety was felt, as he was who polled 500 votes.

helieved to be in very poor health as the result of the hardships of captivity.

CHINA'S LOAN DEFAULT.

SINO-BRITISH NEGOTIATIONS STILL PROCEEDING.

(THROUGH REVTER'S AŬENOY.)

LONDON, March 16.

ANGLO-FRANCO-ITALO NAVAL AGREEMENT.

MEETING OF DIPLOMATIC AND TECHNICAL EXPERTS.

(BRITISH WIRELESŠ SERVICĖ)

A suggestion that the Foreign Secretary should inquire of the Chinese Covernment their reason

Ruany, Mar: 10. for issuing fresh internal loans ae- For the purpose of considering cured upon increased Customs re the form and final drafting of the vomies, while they continued to de-Anglo-Frased Italian Xaval Agree. fault upon the Railway Loans and

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY,

BOXER INDEMNITY AGREEMENT.

RATIFICATION BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

[THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.]

LONDON, Mar. 17.

SWATOW MUTINY

FRUSTRATED."

WHOLESALE EXECUTION

OF REBELS..

CANTON, Mar, 17. Sensational disclosures were made to-day to the effect that following The China Indemnity, Application the discovery of a Communist plot Bill having received the Royal to stir up a mutiny among Govern Aasent the British Government; ment troops at Swatow, 73 officer's through Sir Miles Lampson, British and men were executed on Batur

day.

A hundred other "conspirators " are awaiting sentence.

Minister to China, has notified the Nanking Government of the British ratification of the Boxer Indemnity Agreement signed at Nanking in

Those executed apparently agreed October and providing for the pur-to revolt and wore persuading their thase of railway materials.

The British Government have also sent to Nanking a list of British members of the London Purchasing. Commission, regarding which the Board of Trustees in China will be consulted.

Meanwhile, there has been a con. stant stream of enquiries from en gineering interesta regarding the supply of railway materials which have to be bought in Britain.

The next development will follow the announcement from Nanking of the actual formation of a Board of Anglo-Chinese Trustees.

EXPLOSION DESTROYS

SEALER.

comrades to mutiny when the plot was discovered and nipped in the bud..

CHUNGSHAN MAGISTRATE.

"TANG SHAO YI INSTALLED.

[FROM.OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

MARCH 18, 1931.

PRESS BARON'S - CHALLENGE.

SILVER ADVANCES IN NEW YORK.

TO MEET MR. BALDWIN IN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT

OPEN DEBATE.

"{THNOVUN "NEUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, March 16. statement declining the suggestion Lord Rothermere has issued a

that, he should appar nt St. George's by-election and state his ship, proposing. Instend to

caso. against Mr. Baldwin's lender. meet Mi Baldwin in open debate in a public hall at any time after next wook-end," half of the adhting ne commodation, being of Mr. Bald. win's disposition and half of Lord neutral chairman, the subject of Rothermore's disposition, with a the debate being the policy, leader. ship, and record of the Conserva- tive Party for the last eight years, "To give Mr. Baldwin every nd mntage Lagree to speak first, and concede him the right to reply. My sale purpose is to do all I can to rebuild the Conservativa Party, an that being sound on India, economy and tariffs it may be an effective remedy against Socialism and Bolshevism."

Mr. Baldwin's Reply. Mr. Baldwin has not accepted Lerd Rothermere's challenge,

He stated:-

challenge not to me but to his own "Lord Rothermere addressed a newspapers. That fact alone must throw doubt on its sincerity. It is obvious that the challenge would never have been issued if there had been the remotest prospect of that any

CANTON, March 17. Tang Shao Yi, the newly. appointed Magistrate of Chung. shan, the so-called model district in China, was formally inducted 10 office yesterday in Tang Ka Wan in the midst of an impressive cere- mony.

The Provincial Government of acceptance. The iden

member of the Conservative Party, Kwangtung was represented by to say nothing of the present lead- Mr. Kin Taiang Ching, Commiser, should publicly debate on the quration of party leadership with a Peor who, so far as he is any thing, is a professing Liberal, too impudent to deserve a moment's

ment, a meeting of diplomatic and TWENTY PERSONS REPORTED ioner of Education, who adminis.

other obligations to British inves technical experts in being arranged ters in Chiasso lonus, was made | to take place in London on Thurs. by Captain Robert Henderson, the day. Conservative member for Henley,

in the House of Commons.

F

The basis of discussion is con- tained in the recent provisiona agreement published last week as a White Paper...

AL

Inst

KILLED.

[DEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, Mar, 18. Twenty persons are reported to have been killed in the explosion or the scaler Viking off Horse Taland, on the northern coast, of Newfoundland.

tered the oath of office,

most

The now Magistrata for the popular district in China, on ac-

consideration. «

IN MARKET.

{REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW Youx, March 14 market to-day was the strength of An important development in the

silver bullion, which advanced ane

and one-eighth cents to 31 cento 3 ounce.

U.S.A. TRADE SLUMP.

EXPORTS LOWEST FOR

SIXTEEN YEARS.

· [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

WASHINGTON, March 10." Exports from the United States during February totalled G8220,- oco,000, which is the lowest since November, 1914.

OBITUARY.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR D. O'CALLAGHAN.

Inovon heureR'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, March 28... The death is announced of Major General Bir Deamond O'Callaghan, K.C.V.O., Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery, at tho.ago. of 8 years.

CARDINAL MAFFI.

[zunovan REUTER'S AGENOT.]

Prsa, March 10., The death has occurred of Car- dinal Mail.

During a severs" attack of in- fluenza last month he rose and donned his robes, when he received. extreme unction, kneeling at an improvised altar in the sick room in order to show his followers by personal example the necessity of taking the sacrament in time.

Cardinal Mall, thereafter improv,

but relapsed yesterday.

The imports totalled G8175,000ed, 000, this being the lowest since. September, 1921.

'SUBMARINE VOYAGE TO

Exports in February last your imports at G8281,707,00, were valued at G8345,852,000, and | LATE LORD PRIVY SEAL:

TRIBUTES IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

(BRITISH WIRKLESS' BERVICK)

Rubry, March 10. Remarkable tributes were paid in the House of Comraons to-day when the members formally record. od their sorrow at the untimely death of the Rt. Hon. Vernon

NORTH POLE.

NAUTILUS ON TRIAL TRIP.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

PHILADELPHIA, March, 17. A heavy snowstorm appropriate. y enough marked the departure of belonging to the United States the submarine Nautilus, formerly Navy, in which Sir Habert Wilkins and a party of explorers left for New York. for final trinis en route

Hartshorn, the Lord Privy Seal. MacDonald, described him as one The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay of a number of men of humble origin who, in this generation, had

count of its contribution to the by any individual outside the to the proposed trip to the North stepped into high office and had

Nationalist Movement, left Canton for Tong Ka Wan Inst Tuesday by the gunboat Chungshan in com. pany with Madame Tang and members of the new district gov

The vessel carried a crew of 138, while two stowaways were aboardermont. Practically all the mom- and the film director, Mr. Varick bers of the Committee on Political Frissell, was a passenger.

Tutelage of Chungshan, including

Abram Kean, the noted explorer She was commanded by Captain

Mr. Arthur Honderson, replying, nted that Sir Miles Lampson," In addition to the British, French Jlis Majesty's Minister, had and Italian representatives, Mr.

Dwight Morrow, who was

one of already been in communication the American delegates with the Chinese Government on year's London Naval Conference, the point raised, but to make the and who is now crossing the Allan tic on a holiday, will attend, to enquiries suggested would antic.gether, with the Ambassador, Gen- pate e negotiations with the Chinese authorities at the Debt Consolidation Conference, which opened at Nanking in November a year and which had not yet

ncluded its delibernt.one. Extra-Territoriality Negotiations, Mr. Henderson told Sir Kings ley Wood that the negotiations for the abolition of extra-territoriality in China

proceeding rapidly as their complicated ture permitted. He was, unable at the present, time, to make any statement on the progress of the

gotiations.

eral Dawes, on behalf of the United States, while Japan's representa-and Live will be Baron Matsudaira, her

wero

JAPAN'S "BOURGEOIS

DIET."

25

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LABOUR DEMONSTRATION AT PREMIER'S RESIDENCE.

[TURODON REUTZE'S AGENCY.)

TOKYO, Mar. 17.

A demonstration occurred at the residence of the Prime Minister last Wening when 350 members of the Right Wing of the Japanese Labour Party, in spite of police siforts inove presence of Mr. Hamagu prevent them, forced their way

thi.

The lenders handed Mr. Hamagu- chi a resolution demanding the dis. solution of this "Bourgeois Diet" and then left quietly.

AIRSHIP ENDURANCE

RECORD.. JAPANESE ORAFT 00 HOURS ALOFT WITHOUT REFUELLING

(THROUGH REUter's Agenor.]

Toxyo, Mar. 17.. Favoured by ideal weather, a Japanese naval semi-rigid dirigible has broken the previous padurance record for this type of airship, re- niaining aloft for 60 hours without *. refuelling.

It is claimed to be a world record for this type of aircraft. ·

The dirigible ascended at 11.27 mm. on Saturday, night and do scended at 19.30 a.m.-to-day,

PARIS-TOKYO FLIGHT. FRENCH FLIERS LAND AT

SWATOW

(maodon neurER'S AGENCY.].

Shanghai, Mar, 17. A message from Bwatow states that, Barton and Moenche, who are engaged on a fight from Paris to Tokyo, landed there safely.

Dr. C. W. Kwong, President of £ inember of The Royal Lingnan University, and Mr. Ma Crographical Society.

Ying Pui, Manager of the Sincere The explosion occurred at nine Company in Hong Kong, were pre on Sunday evening, when men sent at the inungural ceremony. from the Vessal

walking In his inaugural speech outlin Aehors un the ice floes

ing his policy, Tang Shao Yi said A steamer with doctors

that ho would devote his attention. nurses Has been despatched to mainly along the following four

Artasandor in London:

Japan Not Able to Participate, (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Tokyo, Mar. 17. Nothing thus far is known in official circles regarding the pronssist the Viking. posed meeting of naval experts in London on March 10, but even if it takes place is intimated that Japan will be unable to participate, as she has not yet received a reply to certain questions raised when forwarding her approval of the Franco-Italian Agreement on March 10.

BRITISH VICE-ADMIRAL

TO VISIT CANTON..

ARRANGEMENTS FOR ENTER-

TAINMENT.

(Wah, Te Fat Pao.)

CANTON, Mar, 17,

were

Stranded on Ice.

and

"The question is not to be settled Party, however rich or influential, Pole under the ice. but by the whole body of Conserva- tite members."

Lord Rothermoto & Maker of

Premiers.

LATER. "Mr. Baldwin has funked the issue,' asserts Lord Rothermore, ndding:

ין

"Mr. Baldwin did not call me a Liberal in 1824 when, thanks to the Zinovieff letter, the Daily Mail, under my directions, secured his return with a record majority for any Premier since 1832,"

CONSERVATIVES: INDIAN POLICY.

SATISFACTORY.

lines: The maintenance of peace and order; the straightening up of public finances; the introduction | MR. BALDWIN'S STATEMENT Sr. Joux's, Mar. 10. of open, clean politics; and the Besides 138 of the crew, two slow-realization of the scheme for the ways and several cinema photo development of Tong Ka Wan into graphers were board, with whom a world duty-free port Mr. Frissell was making a film showing the adventurous aboard a sealer.

life

A wireless message from Horse Island reports that the burning ship was visible, from the shore

as Chungshan Port.

be known

ILLUMINATING CANTON..

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, March 10. The Conservative India Cora- mittee in the House of Commons

with the survivors huddled on the IMPROVEMENT ON PRESENT iority expressing satisfaction and

ice,

Some survivors have already ar- rived at Horse Island and report: that their coinrades are marooned on the ice.

SYSTEM.

The Commander-in-Chief of the is one of the oldest sealers in set-all the modern important cog with

British Fleet on the South China Station (Vice-Admiral Kelly) is ex- pected to pay, an official visit to Canton from Hong Kong on the

1st inst.

The Canton civil, military and anval authorities are making lavish arrangements for his reception.

Upore his arrival at Canton the British Vice-Admiral will immedi- ately proceed to Shaineen to call on the British Conan, Mr. Phillip. At the same time Admiral Chen Chak will, on behalf of the Canton Government, go to Shameen to pay his respects.

Fifty Survivors Beach Shore,

LATER.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] An offshore wind is making it

CANTON, March 17. very difficult to reach land,

In order

to provide better The Viking was built in 1881 and illumination and be in keeping with vice.

cisi centres of Europe and Amerien, the Canton Municipal Government han to-day decided to replace all the small olectric lamps on the Fifty survivors of the Viking reached the shore at Horse Island, streets and maloos with more pow

erful lights, These new lamps, but were unable to explain the each consuming 100 watts, will be disaster, which apparently caused by the spark from a tobacco wails of buildings directly over the hung between telephone poles or pipe falling on a keg of ice-blasting centre of the street or maloo gunpowder.

The intense frost and a north. Uniform continuity in illumination east gale makes the saving of the s been given primary considera. remainder of the crew problema-lamps, and will be obtained by tion in the installation of theso now tieal.

hanging each, 100 feet,apart. Icebreaker and Relief Ships Rushing to Rescue,

Wha

GOVERNMENT AGAIN DEFEATED.

LIBERALS TURN VOTE ON ELECTORAL, REFORM BILL.

[THROUGH REUTER'A AGENCY.]

.

LONDON, Mar. 16. The Government to-day were de feated in the House of Coinmons on Clause Four of the Representation of the People Bill, which sought' to abolish University representation.

The clause was rejected by four votes, the division resulting:

For the Clause 242 Against

• 240 Political consequences are anticipated, except from the fact. that the defeat of the Government was brought about by the decision of 11 Liberals (including Sir Joho Simon) to vote against the Govern ment

not

The Labour Party, leaders and rank and file, are greatly incensed over the Liberal action, as the Bill

was introduced in February (em bodying the Alternative Vote) na a direct concession to the Liberals.

At a private meeting to-day passed a resolution by a very large ma. Agreement with Mr. Ballwin's statement on Indian policy, made

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's subsc at Newton Abbot (and confirmed last week in the House of Com- quent announcement that the mat- mona).

fer would be considered later is There was alively discussion in regarded as a warning to Liberals regard to the procedure followed of the Government's power to with last week, which occasioned all the draw the Bill, though this course speculation and misunderstanding at present is most unlikely. in regard to the eirenmstances in Conservatives could not participate which Mr. Baldwin decided that

in the Round Table Conference in Indin at present.

Fourteen Thousand Prisoners Released.

LATER, "In the House of Commone to

day Mr. Wedgwood Bonn, Secretary of State for India, informed Mr. Graham Polo that the Indian civil March 13 totalled over 14,000. disobedience prisoners released to

The work is being done under the

Princes Approval of Federation. On the following day (22nd) the

direction of Mr. C. O, Leo, Chief Kwangtang Civil Governor, Gen-

NEW DELHI, March 16. of the Bureau of Public Utilities. New York. Mar. 17.

An informal meeting of the eral Chen Ming Shn, the Military

He has decided to start with Chang Princes attending the annual meet- The icebreaker Imogene and two Shau Road, one of the main thoring of the Chamber of the Princes Governor, General Chen Trai Tong. and other Canton high officials will Government relief ships, Sagona ughfares of the city, proceed decided to move a resolution in jointly entertain Vice Admiral and Franklin, are rushing to the Kelly at a reception in the Tui Shirescue of the Viking survivors stilling to Baikwan, Tungwan, Nain open session of the Chamber ap

huddled on the ice.

kwan, Club

the Bund, in the order proving of the principles of federa- nawed.

tion with safeguards for internal On the gard the Canton high Flares and bondres were kent

In conversation with the writer autonomy and the financial and officials will entertain Vice-Admiral burning on Horse Island all night fr, Les said that such an improve economic rights of the States, and Kelly at a dinnor in Government to aid the survivors, who had only ment in illumination will add empowering the Princes' delegates House.

their light and that of the binzing greatly to the beauty of Canton in

to continue their angotiations with vessel to assist them in their peril-addition to its tendency to reduce British Indian delegates to the ous passage through the ice floon. the number of thefts and crimes, Round Table Conferenes,

It is not known how many were and the police will be bettor. able LABOUR'S EXPULSION OF rushed or drowned by falling be- to keep these bad elements in order.

MR. THEODORE. tween the pieces of shifting ice.

CONFERENCE RESOLUTION

DEFIED..

(THROUGH REOTER'S AGENOT.}"

SYDNEY, March 10

AMERICA'S 'MILLIONAIRES.

FIVE HUNDRED IN LATEST RETURN.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)

WASHINGTON, March 16.

TRICOLOR CARRIED ARMS.

OWNERS' OFFICIAL

STATEMENT.

[ranovon BEUTER'S AQINOX,]

Oste, March 18: The owners of the Tricolor, which sank outside Colombe after au explosion in January last, have issued an official statement declar

Some of the more conservative Prinoca, however, expiressad the opinion that federation would en- danger their very existence.

SIR W. M. HEWLETT,

•K.C.M.G.

·

RECEIVED BY THIS MAJESTY THE KING.

[TREGUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

"No New South Wales body has authority to expol me from the Labour Party," declared Mr. Theo- dore, the Federal Treasurer, in re- ference to the resolution for his. expulsion passed by the Metropoli--No-fower than 50 persons in the tan Labour Conference yesterday. United States acknowledged in Ho. added:Mr. Lang's hench comes exceeding $1,000,000 each in men will finish, like the chief 1920, despite the stock marketing that the only arins carried by ed Sir W. M. Hewlett, former the vessel on her last voyage werd|| Consul-General at Nanking, upon priests of the French Revolution, crash of that year, according to

destined for the Nunking Govern. whom His Majesty had conferred a by terrorising each other, and all the Income Tax returns

This compares with 100 dollarment, and all the necessary licences Knighthood, and invested him with will eventually go to the guillo Line"

millionaires in‍ 1923,

had been obtained.

"the insignia of a KCM.

LONDON, Mar, 17. His Majesty King George receiv

CAN I GET

done their work with signal dovo- tion and success.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, expressing sympathy on behalf of the Opposi tion, said that Mr. Hartshorn had set an example of duty plainly and simply done.

had-

Mr. Lloyd George said known Mr. Hartshorn for 30 years and latterly had frequently Con- ferred with him on the country's unemployment problems, which ho approached with broadmindedness and exceptional independen judgment.

Sir John Simon, with whom the Iate Lord Privy Beat served on the Indian Statutory Commission, said. that Mr. Hartshorn brought to that task an energy and sympathy which made him one of its leading figures. The fact that the Com mission produced unanimous re-

By port was largely due to his, in- Astence.

MR. P. SNOWDEN UNDER- 'GOES OPERATION.

PATIENT BEARING UP WELL.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)

LONDON, March 17.

It is announced that Mr. Philip Snowden, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whs to-day most auc- cessfully operated on for drainage of the bladder.

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