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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1931.

DASTARDLY ACT BY LINDBERGH SURVEYS

FLOODED AREA.

MANCHURIAN

SITUATION.

BANDITS.

"COUNCIL'S DECISION

TO-DAY?

MUKDEN-PEIPING TRAIN DERAILED.

REFUGEES THANK HEAVEN

· FOR FOOD.

"THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

{THROPOR REUTER'S" AGENCY, ]:

NANKING, Sept. 20.

FRANCO-GERMAN

RELATIONS.

FRENCH MINISTERS ARRIVE. AT BERLIN,

{THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]

PARIS, Sept. 27,

AMERICAN WOMEN'S GERMAN BANKS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP SUSPEND PAYMENT.

HELEN HICKS BEATS HOLDER:

AMERICAN SERVICE);

New York, Sept. 97.

In the American Women's Goll

CUSTOMERS NOT INVOLVED:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

Cologno, Sept. 20. Three private banks in Rochum holes, Helen Hicks, New York, have suspended payment as the re beat the holder, Mrs. Glenna Colult of national and international lott Vare by 2 and 1.5

financial developments in the past wook.

INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS.

PRIPING, Sept. 27, GENEVA, Sept. 97, There is no development in theThere was brutal slaughter yes- Since their arrival on September M. Lavel and M. Briand Jeff by Championship Snal over thirty-six

a large 19, Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh the 4.24 p.m. train for their official situation regarding Manchuria terday alternoon when aud boper of any settlement before party of bandits, after derailing have earned the wholehearted grati-Berlin visit, the assembly closes on Tuesday seem the Mukden-Feiping train" near

BERLIN, Sept. 27. loomed to disappointment,

Jaayangho, Afty five miles westward tude of the Chinese nation by using

Laval and M. Briand arrived of Mukden as the crow, flies, killed their monoplane daily for surveys GENEVA, Sept. 20.

Cat 637 am. They were welcomed No fresh developments occurred thirty people including the driver, of the flooded areas in North at the station by Dr. Bruening, to-day in the Sino-Japanese con fremen and two oilers, Many more Kiangsu and the Yangtze Falloy. Dr. Curtius and the French Am. dict, both sides Armly maintaining were badly injured. The dead are their positions. The Chinese, insist roparted to inclue one Briton and As the result of his report to the bassandor. The meeting with the German Ministers were most cor on the appointment of on Commis ous Hindu, but the British Leg Flood Relief Commission, Colonel sion of Inquiry, composed of neutrals tion has so far no news. **4*

Lindbergh at noon took off with appointed by the League Council, while the Japanese, on the other

two doctors with medical supplies hand, absolutely oppose auch

and vaccines for the purpose of Bourse which they declaro will only

landing at various cities in North complicate matters.

Kiangsu, west of Grand Canal.

The Japanese ask: "Why does the Chinesa Government abandon the original proposal to the Japan- o Minister at Nanking for direct negotiations Japan has already declared that she is prepared to negotiato a Bottlement direct with the Chiness Government,”....

The view held in Chinese circles is that if the request for a Com». | mission of Inquiry is set aside con- Adence in the League of Nations: will be seriously compromised.

It is not expected that the Council will take a fiɗal decision before Monday or Tuesday.

The derailment»' was 'caused by the removal of rails and, as a result, the engine and five coaches were

oaches wer thrown off the track.

the train before decamping.

The bandits completely, looted

Relief trains were sent from Tientsin,

Chinese troops are trying to round up the despocadoes.

"PREMIER FEELS BETTER.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

The Orst place visited was Hinghwa, 60 miles NNE. of Nan- king where the population ÍÐ living in sampana, there being no dry land within 5 miles.

Colonel Lindbergh' related a very pathetic sory of how the starving inbabitants, who had been isolated- for a month, thankfully believing that the monoplane would bring food supplies, literally hundreds of snmpana hastened to the plane. RUGBY, Sept. 25.

Seeing the packages, many knelt Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay Macdown, thanking Heaven that food Donald, who returned to London had arrived. this morning after a brief rest in the country, attended the House of Commons this afternoon, and a meeting of the Cabinet was held in Chequers, where he will spend the his room. Afterwards he left for is danger that the League's action week-end. He is understood to have miny encourage important factors in China to challenge the inter-greatly benefitted in health from the nationally recoguised rights of the few days spent in the country. Japanese in South Manchurin

LÖNDON, Sept. 28. The Times, in as editorial, con gratulates the League of Nations on the good work done towards the settling of the Sino-Japanese con Hict, and adds that there clearly

The Chinese Government will bo

ill-advised if it mistook sympathy ment in regard to the Mukden for partisanship and failed to take incident. The message is as fol serious steps to reach a generalows:- settlement with Japan. "..

Japanese Treaty Rights

Questioned."

....

were

The sampan folk unmaliciously, mobbed the doctors, who forced to give up the packages and scramble aboard the monoplane,

take off to escape serious damage. from the surging, mob in the boats,

which was compelled hurriedly to

ROUND TABLE

CONFERENCE.

LORD SANKEY NOW

MAKING REPORT.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}

POUND STERLING

RALLIES.

STOCK MARKET STILL "ACTIVE

[DRITISH WIRELESS" SERVICE]

RUGBY, Sept 25. The feature at the closs on the strong rally in the pound which Foreign Exchange Market was a had weakened earlier in the day. The New York rate which was 3.40 this morning rose to 3.775," while They are (1) The Bank House of the Paris rale finished at 947 after Hermpan Schueler, (2) The Bank an adverse tendency. The fluctun- House of Mahnert and Duoppe, and tions are followed, without excite (3) The House of Stern Archerbald.ment as it is realised that for some The Bank House of Hermann days there will be considerable.

exchange until

dial and when emerging from the SINO-JAPANESE DELEGATES Schueler states that its customers movements in

station they were, heartily cheered by large crowds, who repeatedly raised cries of Long Live Pence,"

Berlin paper warmly welcome the guests with the exception of irreconcileablo extremists of the. Right which reiterate a refusal, in advance to accept any Franco- German agreement: which may reached.

NATIONAL ECONOMY

BILL.

OPPOSITION AMENDMENTS

DEFEATED.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE. ).

RUGBY, Sept. 25. To-day was

the second of the three days allotted in the House of Cominons to the Committee stage of, the National Economy Bill, and Opposition amendmens to provi sions relating to National Health Insurance and policy were defeat ed.

MR. HURLEY "SAILS FOR AMERICA.

· MAY BE ABSENT.

· [THIROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY. )

SLAGHAI, Sept. 20. -

The conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations scheduled to take place in Shanghai next month, is likely to undergo considerable modification owing to the disturbed Sing-Japanese "relations.

It is regarded as most unlikely that the Chinese and Japanens groups will participate, and, there fore, an alternative programme of a less formal character is under consideration.

Final arrangements are subject to the decision of the Pacific Council, which is meeting in Shanghai short- ly.

SILVER CONFERENCE.

[INNOVOB REUTER'S AGENOT.]

LONDON, Sept. 20.

-

ference have returned from Paris The delegates to the Silver Con- to report to the Central Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce,

Extraordinary accrecy in main- tained regarding the meeting. No announcement has been made to the Press, whilst the meeting place. is U.B. WAR SECRETARY, LEAVES never the same twice running,

MANILA

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

MANILA, Sept. 25, The U.S. War Secretary, MT. Hurley, sulla for America to-day Aaboard the President Hoover, ̈.

Ruay, Sept. 26. General discussion on the distri button of financial resources under the proposed new Indian Constitu- tion was concluded in the Federal Structure Committee to-dag. Sub-Committee, consisting of twelve members, to consider and report upon the General principles on which the Federal sources and oh ligations of India should be appor- tioned between the Federation the British-Indian units jointly end severally and State units" was set un under the Chairmanship of Lord Peel.

In our converantions hold during my recent unofficial visit to Tokyo, I stated that relations between Chinn and Japan had been unsatis NANKING, Sept. 20." factory for nearly a generation, Referring to the Japanese War and suggested that the time had Minister's statement that Japan probably come for a new orienta- was entitled to maintain fifteention in policy in the sense of the soldiera per kilometre of the South teachings of Dr. Sun Yat Sen whose Manchuria Railway, or a total of conception of the relationship be 16,500 whereas the actual number tween the two countries, linked in was only, 14,000, a Foreign Office certain respects by a common cul- spokesman to day Resorted that the ture, envisaged a régime of under Japanese troops already in Man- standing and friendliness instead of churia are reported to be in excess mistrust and misunderstanding in by the two divisions, this excluding their international intercourse, those from Karen and the Japanese And I referred to what is known Volunteers, the whole aggregating as the "Manchurian question" as at least 50,000,

the crux of all relations between The Foreign Office spokesman China and Japan. pointed out that Japan's title is I emphasized that no Chinese or apparently based on Article 1 of group of Chinese or Chinese Gov- the additional articles of the Poris, crament could agree to a settlement mouth Treaty of 1905, wherein of the Manchurian question which Japan and Russia reserved the involved the annexation, or the right to maintain railway guards practical annexation of Manchuria not exceeding fifteen per kilometre. by Japan. I stressed another The spokesman also pointed out point, I said that no settlement that while China acquiesced in cer- of the question would be effective tain provisions of the Portsmouth and real unless the Chinese Nation Trenty she has never recognised the as a whole approved of it; and I Trenty as such nor its addditional indicated that such approval would have to be secured through the Moreover, Article 2 of the annex submission of the terms of settle to the Peking Treaty of 190ment to the Kuomintang in Nation-Prime Minister is Chairman, will stipulates that in the event of al Congress assembled. Russia withdrawing her railway You replied that nothing could guards, Japan consents to act be further from the thought of the similarly. Therefore since the Government of Japan than the AVIATORS LAID TO REST. Russian Guards have all been with. annexation of Manchuria and, if drawn, and Chinese troops have and when it should become neces undertaken the protection of the Kary, your Government, would be Chinese Eastern Railway, the con- prepared to declare categorically tinuance of Japanese troops in that Japan recognized Manchuria Manchuria is absolutely without as an integral part of the Republic legal basis or treaty sanction.

of China and had no wish or inten tion to infringe Chinese territorial sovereignty in that region. At the Kame time you pointed out that Japan had rights and interests in Manchuria, most of which are vest ed in her by treaty and all of which are the outcome of a long historical background.". In further conversa tions with responsible members of

articles,

Anxiety on the Yangtze.

TOKYO, Sept. 26. With the exception of Harbin apprehension of further develop ments. has been practically removed, but anxiety is increasing over the situation on the Yangtare,

The Minister for the Kavy, re-

will be suspended. next week while Meetings of the full Committee the Sub-Committee is silting and, during the interval, the Chairman, Lord Sankoy, will prepare a draft report on the work already done. tion will again come to the front

The important communal ques next week for, on Monday, the Minorities Committee, of which the

resume work

[TROUGH REUTER'S MOENCY.]

After brither officers had watched After brother officers had watched over the coffing of Lebrix and Mesnin lying in state at Notre! Dame all night, the "funeral was celebrated by Cardinal Verdier this morning Around the coffins were grouped, the Air Minister, M Damianil, the President of the Municipal Council, the Military Governor of Paris, Diplomatie including Costes, Bellonte, Sndile Cointe, Codes, Le Fevre and Lotti, also Francois Coty. The Vice- Fresident of the Aero Club paid a tribute to the dead on behalf of French airmen..

He emphatically denied that bet told Leaders of the Legislature that ho had decided to recommend to

ARMAMENT TRUCE,

ITALIAN PROPOSAL

ACCEPTED.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]"

Ruasy, Sept., 25...

A Geneva message states that. agreement has been reached rogare

the Italian proposal for an Armament truce.

Congress the grant to the Philip pines of Independence. He declaring ed that his conclusions were not revealable until he had submitted them to Mr. Hoover who had sent. him to the Philippine Islands.

WEATHER REPORT. Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 8.30 p.m., stated :-,

The typhoon is about 100 miles NN.W. of Tokyo, mOv ing E.NE. A trough of reln tively low pressure extends from Indo-China to Guam; ?".

Local Forecast:-E, winds, moderate; fair to showery,

TYPHOON WARNING. The following typhoon warn- ing has been received by the American Consulate General from the Manila Observatory: Manila, Sept 28, 11 mo Typhoon in about 12deg Long, E and 33deg. Lat, N., recurv. ing north eastward.

METEORITE CRATERS IN

AUSTRALIA.

PITS.

are not involved in any loss......... --*| opinion in other inancial centres [Bochum is a town in the middle haa" had time to recustom itself of the Ruhr coal basin, and one of to the new conditions." The Stock the busiest manufacturing towns in Market was again active, indus- Prussin.]

trials loading..

RELIEF TO FRENCH DEPOSITORS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PARIB, Sopt. 20.0 Relief was felt by tens of thou- sands of depositors when it became known that a strong consortium, had come to the aid of the Banque backed by the Ministry of Finance, Nationale de Credits, rumours of whose soundness were, circulating yesterday,

The bank is one of the biggest and most important in France.

WINTER RELIEF IN GERMANY.

PUBLIC SOUP KITCHENS

ADVOCATED..

Berlin, August 31.-The Minister for Labour, Dr. Stegerwald, made remarkable speech at the German Trade Union Congress, which was opened to-day,

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At the present time of emergency, the Labour Minister maintained, salarics of £15,000 and upwarda received in private industry showed irresponsibility and wore an offence to the general public. As for the. worker, a one-sided attack against wages, he declared, would not be countegianced by the present Gov- |érnment, which was determined to maintain the system, successfully adopted in Germany, of arbitration by the Reich. :

GOLD STANDARD IN INDIA

ASSEMBLY DISAPPROVES OF GOVERNMENT DECREE.

[THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]

SIMLA, Sept. 28. The Assembly carried by 61 votes to 40 resolution proposed by Shaama Khan Chetty, expressing. disapproval on the currency policy announced by Sir Samuel Hoare on Sept 21. The resolution urged the Governanent to take the necessary steps" to maintain the total amount of gold sterling assets against paper currency as well as gold standard, reserves,

4

GOOD-

'GANDHI'S

WILL TOUR."

LANCASHIRE PRODUCTS FOR INDIA.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,

LONDON, Sept. 26. Gandhi made a concussion during his "goodwill tour" of Lancashire. He has already met the leaders of the cotton industry to whom, be asserted, that if a settlement was reached on a basis of equal part. The question of the working day nership, he would favour Lanen- was not merely that of socialshire products for that cloth which policy, Germany, owing to her India is unable at present to gold and credit basis, must still supply. further fores her exports. The 40. hour week in a number of branches

of industry would raise the cost of TANKS & CAVALRY Production, thus impairing Ger many's exports,

ROUT REBELS,

J.

FIFTY KILLED AND 300 WOUNDED.

AIR BOMB HAVOC...

W

The Labour "Minister reminded. the unions that German industry, DISCOVERY OF MANY DEEP in spite of the behaviour of the country's credit system, had proved stronger than was generally realis ed, and that between last March Sydney,-One of the most inter and the middle of July unemploy cating geological discoveries in ment bad actually deerenscu-at-a Australia was made recently intime when it was increasing in Log- Central Australia, when 13 large | land and America. cratera, blasted into the face of the Dr. Stegerwald calculated, never-

Lisbon, August £7.-Fifty persous carth thousands of years ago by theless, that the unemployment were killed, 300, wounded and 500. hugo, meteorites, were found. would form a still higher percen taken prisoners in the revolt which Three of them are stated to be tage of the German population than turned Lisbon into a battlefield bigger than the biggest made by last winter, and would require yesterday. the meteorite that fell in Northern about £100,000,000 for relief be Led by officers who are seeking Siberia 23 years ago and devastated tween September 1, 1931, and March to end the military dictatorship.. hundreds of square miles of forest 31, 1932. Methods of feeding the the rebel force, composed mainly of land by a fire that followed.... unemployed this winter were at civilians armed with bombs, eb. The largest is second in size only present under consideration, estained an early strategic advantage to the noted crater in Canyon pecially the question of instituting by occupying two artillery barracks Diablo, Arizona, United States. ?- communal, kitchens in the large that command the town,

Unlike the Arizona meteorite, towns.

Field guns trained upon them by which apparently fell practically in tact and mada but a single crater, the Siberian and Central Australian meteorites appear to have split un when hurtling through the sir, making a series of craters where they struck the earth

The Australian craters vary in

At prosent the private consumer the loyal forces, however, soon had often to pay twice as much for drove them from their positions, food as that received by the pro and they scattered to various ducer, and this practice could not points, he maintained this winter as far as the unemployed were concerned: The towns, co-operative societies, and private traders would have to

Machine-guns on Rosis," Machine-gun emplacements, pro tected with sandbags, were erooted on roof tops, from which streams,

troops in the arcete.

porting on the China situation to the General Staff Headquarters and Officers and many famous airmen,THREAT TO CIVILISATION. |size from 220 yards to ten yards take measures to enable the unemof fire were directed on the loyalist

the Cabinet this morning, is quoted the War Office in Tokyo na well as as saying go

with the official leader of the Sei- The districts under Canton and yukai, I satisfied myself that, en Chang Hauch Liang are compara- this crucial point, you appeared to tively quiet, but the provinces express the governing mind of under the Contral Government becoming increasingly dangerous.”

Are

Trains Machine-Gunnad.

FRIFING, Sept. 28.

Japan

Events, however, are taking place in Manchuria which are a denial' of the plain meaning of the fore- going definition of Japanese policy. A great historic city and other im- portant contres is Manchuria hevé. heen forcibly occupied by Japanese troops, and deeds are being done on Chinese soil-which would move even the weakest of oations, to in- dignation and resistanco, A

OUT FOR NEW RECORD.

· KINGSFORD-SMITH IN A HURRY.

A report seems to be confirmed from several reliable sources that Japanese aeroplanes nachine-gun- ned at least thres trains during the past two or three days carrying rofugees from Mukden to Tientsin, Ono train, on which were 'foreign-" As the National Government cra, had two Chinese killed and established at Canton is prepared several others wounded. A to co-operate in realizing Dr. Sun's NANEING; Sept. 20 conception of Chinese-Japanese The capital is most depressed at relations it has a right to know Kingsford-Smith flow over Sings the news of the Longue of Nations whether the grave situation created pores at 11 am-on-Friday and decision not to take further action in Manchuria, a to be interpreted dropped a note saying: Cannot in regard to the Manchurian situas a repudiation of the policy stated stay, han in real burry this time."

tion.

„CANTON'S_PROTEST.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

"Camion, Bent, er:

Mr.. Eugene Chen, Foreign Minis ter of the Canton National Govern enent, addressed yesterday a note

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)

Singapore, Sept. 26.

Arrival at Victoria Point.

Vimonia Point (Burma), - Sept. 28. Kingsford-Smith arrived here at

Rigador, Sept. 15.

by you in the course of our 'recent exchange of views, or (which is o view held in some informed quar- ters) is it to be treated as only the reckless action of the less modern section of the Japanese High Com- 7.18, mand whose ideas about the vital

needs of Japan as a modern stateAir Commodore Kingsford Smith and whose views on the relation arrived here at 5.55 o'clock this ship of nations are survival from evening. He proposed to take off of protest to the Tokyo Gore the Ages of Feudalism for Jhansi carly to-morrow morti

(Continued on nézt Lolumn.)

(Signed) BraENE CHEN

STABILITY LOST."

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

DETORN,

Scattered over the nur plorod to buy their daily necessities rounding country are more than 800 | at considerably- lower prices, moteorite fragments, ranging in weight from a few ounces to 50lb, These "consist mainly of metallic iron and nickel.

Double Pruch Bowl:

These craters are about seven miles west-south-west of Henbury cattle station on the Binice River, and are known locally as the Double Punch Bowl

Two Adelaide scientists, Mr. A.

FED

WOMAN IN A CAGE.

ON BRAN AND WATER.

FOR A MONTH.

Cavalry, armoured cars and tanks drove the rebels from behind the barricades they had erected in the etreat, but a rally was made in the Zoological Gardens, P

BUGBY, Sept. 26,

There a pitched battle raged lór Speaking at the American Cham-

several hours, and the hurriedly-dug ber of Commerce: Innch in London

trenches of the rebels were subject today, Lord D'Abernon said that

led to a merciless fire from field. there was never a time when the

Milan.--Mysterious broken sobs vigorous exercise of co-operation

having been heard coming from a uns mounted near St. George's: between the United States and

farm near Altripalda, Naples, the Castle and other heights surround Great Britain was caure, impurtand

police decided to raid its vary was sent to the aid of

ing Lisbon than at present. Out civilisations R. Alderman and Mr. F. L. Winzor,: "A"lidder was reared against the were menaced by a very grave recently visited the area and spent wall and in a cage 3 feet high by the Government infantry units, and danger. Stability, had been lost two weeks, investigading it. They 4 feet 6 inches wide an inspector general charge was ordered. The and we suffered to-day from a state that the walls of the craters found a woman ciad in a few rage, obels were routed and their sec violent world defintion which it must originally have been much and in the last stage of exhaustion commander taken prisoner. was indispensable to correct not by higher, for they have been con- tion the woman, who is to years

Bombed Market Place. local currency measure, but by siderably reduced in size and After woman, 73

Some of the pilot at Aberca: widespread agreement to reestab height by erosion. Their foors and old, had received medical treat aviation camp also revolted. A lith the price level thus enabling tides are covered with coarse prassment, she explained that her son rebel plane dropped a bombon debtors to pay, and potential and sorub. Acacias and blue bush in-law had for long ill-used her in the market place at Almada, op buyers to resume activity. It was are also growing in them, although order to get her to mga, over to posite Lisbon, killing four civilins far more by restoration of trade the surrounding country is 's gibber him some little property of bere, and wounding 40, many of them activity that the commercial world plain on which there are trees only. As she continued to refuso, he were women, could be saved than by any new in the beds of the watercourses one day, in an excess of "disap-

Order has been completely restor restriction of world prices to the The largest crater, is about 50 painted fury, placed her in the ed to day ba level of 1920. This was the level feet deep, but originally it must cage, where she had been kept for It is believed that one of the to which wages lehte, and other have been considerably depper. He over a month under the pitiles raya rebel leaders, the aviator Barpeta contracts were adjusted and any presentations have been made to of the summer sun,

Beires, whe fed with a band to violent departure from it either the Prime Minister (Mr. Reille) to

from Alverca purred by for upward or downward, involved the have the site on which the metes

troops, deserted in followers when ATANO danger of serious social die rite was found proclaimed a

they were orgelaken at Canecas turbance and conflict.

north of Lisbon.

national reservo,

Her only sustenance during this period had been bran and water The son-in-law is being searched for by the police.