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THE CUBAN TURMOIL

Assuming Serious Aspect

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933.

DROUGHT CAUSES THIRD KULING

DUTCH SUGAR London Air-Mail Letter

HB

HEATH FIRES

CONFERENCE

MERCHANTS

Troops And Police Fight Outbreaks"

"Havana, Sept. 7.

London, Sept. 6. THE Political turmoil in Cuba

is rapidly assuming a more TROOPS stripped to the waist and

wearing steel helmets and gas serious aspect; following the re-masks were again engaged yester signation on Tuesday of the Ces- day in fighting heath fires along pedes Government. Yesterday an the borders of Hampshire and unruly mob made an unsuccess- full attempt to seize an American citizen, while a crowd of com- munists took possession of two sugar mills.

A manifesto, guaranteeing order and promising that the old com- mand of the armed forces will shortly be restored, has been issu- ed by the Revolutionary Council.

Early yesterday, a mob of work- men attempted to remove the American manager of the Havana branch of the United Fruit Com pany from $ liner berthed · at Havana docks, while later, a crowd of Communists seized two sugar mills, one at Orlerite and one at Santa Clara,

The two managers of the latter mill escaped from the mob, and took refuge on board a British freight steamer in the harbour.

Conditions Grow Worse in Cuba.

Washington, Sept. 7. Reports that the conditions are growing worse ip Cuba, especially on the South Goast, were received here yesterday from the United States Ambassador to Cuba, Mr. H. Summer Wellea..

The departure of the United States Secretary of Navy. Mr. Claude Swanson for Havana on aboard the USS. Indianapolis, was delayed for an hour, the reason not being disclosed.

President Roosevelt and the Unit- ed States Secretary of State, Mr. William Cordell Hull, 'yesterday conferred, with representatives of the Argentine, Brazil, Chile and › Mexico. The President reiterated that the United States. did not desire to intervene, and urged that the Cubans should obtain as rapid- ly as possible, a 'Government of their own choosing, and one which would maintain order and thus eliminate the necessity of United States in-. tervention.-Reuter.

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More Ships Ready!

Two United States destroyers are already in Havana harbour, and President Roosevelt is prepar-

ed to send" further ships if the

necessity arises. Two' other Ameri- can warships are already" en route to Cuba.

The latest development in the Cuban situation occurred on Tues- day, when a group of extrémists seized the reins of the Govern- ment. A non-commissioned officer, Sergeant Batista, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban forces, and one of his first acts Was to arrest all officers of the Army, Navy and Police Force.

Four members of ex-President Machado's secret police were mur- dered in Satiago by a mob" who looted the armoury.-Reuter.

An N.C.O. Ruler.

Washington, Sept. 7. A Cuban Army Sergeant has taken control of the Oriente Pro- vince in Cuba.-Reuter.

BRITISH CRUISER ORDER- ED TO BAHAMAS

Surrey.

The countryside for nearly eight miles had been burning in the pre- vious night's fire but, although its progress was stopped by the efforts of troops, police and civilians, smouldering patches again broke

To Pave Way for Sino-Anxious To Get Into

Japanese Friendship

Canton Market

| (From Our Special Qorrespondent) -

Canton, Sept. 7.

ALL is quiet to-day at the ware-

Oxford And Shelley: Funeral Of A Distinguished Admiral: Death Of Harold Lake: Training Future

Disraeli's And Baldwins: America's Premier Journalist: The

Late Alec

. Cottrill®

(Special Air-Mail Service)

Shanghai, September 7.

•Theng Chung Ming, vice- MR

minister of railways and close follower of Mr. Wang Ching Wei, is quoted by his friends as saying that the third Huling conference

houses of the China Naviga which met this morning is to re- tion Company Ltd. Although concile the pro-Japanese faction merchants are permitted by the of Mr. Huang Fu and the Euro Kwangtung Beamen's Union to American clique under T. V. Soong. take delivery of the goods from This is to pave the way for an the 18 godowns, nothing has yet intimate relationship between the been done.” Nanking government and Japan. -Strikers and the Seamen's out in several place yesterday. tion of dividing up the proceeds chants were to remove their goods It is also stated that the ques-Union' demanded that if mer- notably along the Ringwood-Wim-of the G.$50,000,000 American at all, they must have them ̈re- wheat and cotton loan will also moved altogether at one time. On Fire Brigades are using thou-be discussed. "

the other hand, the owners of sand of feet of hose, but the scare-

It has always been one of the Other Items on the agenda in-goods said they should be permit-minor ironies of history that Ox- ity of water adds to the difficulties clude the charge of administrated to have their own way "in ford, having expelled Shelley for of the fire-fighters.

tion of Klangsu Klangsi, Honam, taking away the merchandise agnostic views, should have ac Anhwel and Cheklang, and, dis- without any restrictions at all. cussion of the report submitted by. Mr. T. V. Soong on his tour of Europe and America-Central Press.

borne road.

Troops were yesterday patrolling all areas where further outbreaks were likely and were to remain on duty throughout the night.

lands could be seen for many miles. Smoke. clouds from the heath British Wireless. Service.

Telegraph.Posts Ablaze

The serious heath "fire" was Hartford

at

this

London, Aug. 16. THE SHELLEY MEMORIAL

Owners of the goods are willing cepted a memorial to him, with a special dome-like chapel to house to pay the one and a half perit cent. pf the value of the goods to be taken away as stipulated by the Kwangtung Provincial Kuomin- tang. Still, the Seamen's Union and the strikers, it seems, have no wish to see the early deliveries of the goods.

RED SUPPRESSION.

Kuling. Sept. 7. [MPORTANT decisions were reach.

Some foreign merchants in Java Bridge Flats. Surrey. |1

ed on a number of internal where a plantation, three miles and external problems "at

are interested to extend their square and representing a decade morning's session of the Kuling the threat of the strikers to boy

sugar trade to Canton following of Government "Afforestation Work Conference

which Chiang was destroyed during the night. Shek, Wang Ching Wei and T. VButterfeld and Swire, agents of Kal cott the sugar refined by Messrs Troops and police are now cutting Soong attended. trenches in the path of the flames. In regard to the "Red" suppres- The Dutch merchants are said to the China Navigation Company, which is threatening the villages sion problem it was agreed to ap-have approached the Union with and well-known establishments.propriate $17,510,000 to finance the view to ascertaining the extent Motorists were thrilled to see the anti-Reds campaign to be vigor names forty feet high and the ously carried out in the Red-in- telegraph posts skirting the main fested areas in Central China. roads ablaze.-Reuter.

A detailed plan for the rehabl- litation

of the flooded districts along the Yellow River was Riso submitted för discussion this morning and on experts' sugges-

ATTACK ON LORD tion a decision was taken

KITCHENER

| $4,500,000 for relief work.

zaise

Another Important resolution concerning technical co-operation between China and the League of Nations was passed. It was re- solved that the League of Nations

By L. G. In His "War technical experts be at first. 38.

Memories"

London, Sept. 7.

EXCEEDINGLY scathing criticism

signed to Klangsu, Hunan, Hupel Anhui, and" Cheklang to start their i many-fold activities with the ob- ject of making these provinces as model ones for other provinces to

follow-Central News Agency.

THE NANCHANG

CAPTIVES

Hopes Of Early Release

"of the late Lord Kitchener and other outstanding figures of the war years are uttered by Mr. Lloyd George in the first volume of his "War Memories," published to-day.

book has been The

eagerly awaited as was generally expected vigorous that it would contain

upon Mr. Lloyd commentaries George's contemporaries in early days of the War and the first volume is not disappointing.

The volume details events until THE negotiations for the release

1915..

"

the

Newchwang, Sept. 7.

of the as. Nanchang captives have successfully terminated through the Japanese captain of gendarmes, Captain Obats.

of the Talkoo sugar business in South China and how, Java sugar, can replace it.

KALAKAALALAAAAAAAAAAAAKÍ

SILVER MARKET :

(From Our Own Correspondent)

London, Sept. 7

Following are the Silver Quota- tions on the London market to

day:

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Sept. 7 Sept. 8 Spot

18.1/16 19:1/16 Forward ... 18.3/16 181 The London on New York cross rate to-day was: £14.553.

THE CHARHAR SITUATION

Renewal Of Trouble Feared

speakers'

classes --- particularly those organised for the younger members of the party.

He has presented a valuable challenge trophy for a competition in which it is expected that hun- dreds of speakers will take part.

INTERRUPTING JUDGES

The Shelley Memorial at Univer- The competitions take the form sity College is to be renovated. of a public meeting in miniature- The white marble figure of the the teams of four comprising a poet, nude, and lying in the post-chairman, principal speaker, and tion in which he is said to have mover and seconder of a vote of been found drowned, is intact, in thanks. spite of nearly hall a century of vandalistic plots to daub it with paint and otherwise maltreat it. shabby and But its surroundings, have become the long corridor which approaches It is rather too sombre.

THE LATE ADMIRAL SIR

WILLIAM PAKENHAM

representatives from the navies of Eight Admirals of the Fleet and

the great nations of the world es- corted the remains of Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham from Princes Gate, London, to Brompton Parish Church for the funeral service. The procession marked the last stage of a long journey. The Admiral's body had been brought home from San Se-

bastian, where he died,

And to encourage" repartee and to discourage those dismal recite tions which so often in a novice betray the speech "earnt heart," the judges will interrupt vigorously.

by

A JOURNALIST'S EARNINGS Mr. Walter Winchell, New York's "ace" gossip writer, is claiming amging of "Sonny Boy" made half £100,000 from Mr. Al Jolson, whose the civilised world weep happily. Winchell, whose sult arises from an incident in Hollywood when Jolson knocked him down, is said by his awed fellow-journalists to earn 200,000dol. a year, should not be surprised to find that

tel, the Lincoln,

and I

he makes at least half that sum Els radio talks bring him in al- A run team from HMS. Pem-, most as much as his journalism. broke drew the comin, and a de and inscrutable wields extraor

Winchell-youngish," hard-boiled, tachment from the same ship led dinary power in New York, parti- the procession in its march by cularly on Broadway

and the way of Exhibition Road and Crom-

Forty-fourth-street- Ustrict. He well Road to the church. The band holds a sort of court at his re of the Royal Marines played Cho-galar table at the Algonquin Ho- pin's Funeral March on the route. tel. but lives, with a wife and a The King was represented by couple of children, at another-ho- Admiral Sir Henry. Buller, the Prince of Wales by Admiral Str

Journalism has always been in. Lionel Halsey, and the First Lord his blood. He ran away from of the Admiralty by Mr. P. N. school to join, at 12, a vaudeville Synnott (private secretary). Earl act known as "The Newsboys Sex- Beatty and Sir Charles Madden tette." "That qualified me as dra- were among a group of famous matic critic." he told me. naval met now retired. The Ame- Lord Ambassador and Burghley were among those sitting behind the relatives.

The eight Admirals in uniform who brought the coffin to the church with Sir William's sword,

an

hat, and medals laid on the, Union Jack with which it was draped were Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt. Sir Charles Briggs,

A RACING TRAGEDY Mr. Alec Cottrill, the amateur rider who was fatally injured at Lewes, was a serious young man with a brilliant career as a train-

er before him. Mr. George Lamb-

ton has been deprived of a splen-

did assistant who would probably have become his successor. Bir Montague Mr. Cottrill's father, Harry Cot- Browning, Sir Richard Phillimore, trill, was in a bank and took up Sir James Fergusson, Sir Walter ding, at first, for amusement. Cowan, Sir Arthur Walstell. and But he later became trainer for; Sir William Boyle.

BEER

FOOD VALUE

OF ALCOHOL

In an address to the old boys, association of the Hull Municipal Technical College, Sir William Ar- buthnot Lane, the eminent surgeon and physician said:

"People grumble about. alcohol and say that we are a nation of drunkards, but for everyone that dies of alcohol a thousand die from meat. Alcohol is

one of the best foods we have. It is a most "economical food, and if it did not act on the nervous "system one would be able to take a great deal

more.

ATTACK ON NAZI TROOPER

Rigid Punishment For Offenders

Berlin, Sept. 6.

EIGHTY Communists, confined in

a concentration camp' at witt- moor, near Hamburg, have been placed in solitary confinement for three days, as retaliation for an attack on a Nazi storm trooper by alleged Communista.

Hot meals will not be supplied. Mrs. Soler Whitburn, and soon and the men will have to sleep came to the front rank of train-on plank beds without blankets

Reuter ers.

SLIPPING SADDLES

Feiping, Sept. 7. RENEWAL of trouble in Charhar is feared as a consequence of the recalcitrant attitude of Gen- erai Chi Hung Chang and General Source of Obstruction.

Feng Chin Wu, who were formerly Mr. Lloyd George pungently at-

under the command of Feng Yu tacks many generals and alleges The captives are expected to be Halang. They are still refusing to that the War Office was a "per- released on this morning-Reuter. hand over their commands to the The Nanchang piracy occured on Charhar Government; obviously petual source of obstruction" when

"I HEAR YOU CALLING ME” he set out to organise the Minis- March 30, while the vessel was at haggling for more advantageous try of Munitions.

anchor of Newchwang Bar. The terms.

Mr. Harold Lake, who wrote the Chi Hung Chang's troops, officers Ele relates that after the Battle four

carried

off were, appear to be making their way words of the song "I hear you call- of Neuve Chappelle, one of the Messrs. A. D. "Blue, Clifford John- towards Tushikow with the obing me," died at his home in Lon-

The tragedy of Mr. Alee Cottrill most sanguinary of the early days son, W.. E. Hargrave and F. Ject of joining themselves with don yesterday after a long illness.

was intensified by, the manner of the war, Sir John French's Pears. The of

latter was released Feng Chin Wu's army. Suca a He was 51 and leaves a widow. urgent plea for more ammunition shortly afterwards to convey the state of affairs might compel the Recently he told how the lyric his death. Amateur steeplechase riders fall with great frequency. was met by the complaint that the bandits demands to the author-Chathar Governor, Soong Tse came to be written.

th The late Harry Dearth, the bar-But here was a flat race, in which artillery had used thirteen rounds tea.

Yuen, to resort to force as per gun dally!

last step to deal with them. Chi lad singer, and Mr. Lake were both two first-class amateurs were un- school of horsed through their saddles slip- Hung Chang's representative at singing in the choir Changpel has been arrested by or- Westminster Abbey. Mr. Lake was ping. Mr. Cundell fell on his feet Central News Agency."

Kitchener's Prestige,

Barbardos, Sept. 7. The British cruiser, H.M.S. Danae, has been ordered to proceed to Nassau, the capital of the Bahama as Islands, where it is rumoured that trouble has broken Referring to the decline in Lord out following the hurricane which Kitchener's prestige, Mr. Lloyd

George "reveals that the Field Reuter.

London, Sept. 7. Marshal never knew that the Ger- The cruiser Danea is proceeding mans and the Austrian had cross- to Jamaica and not the Bahamas. ed the Danube until twenty hours

Reuter.p

after the news of the advance had reached the War Office.

U.S. CRUISER

LAUNCHED

ENGLAND MOURNS LORD GREY

(Pontinued from Page 1)

der of General Boong Tse Yuen- then assistant master in the choir, suries proved fatal. Cotts

JAPANESE TO WITHDRAW

ns and or fishing. It is significant that the only book he has written is on the art of fly-fishing. He has When Carson heard of this at no passion for politics. He seems a Cabinet meeting he passed Mr. a casual figure in the field of Lloyd George a note saying: "affairs, a spectator who is a little doesn't read telegrams and we do bored by its feverish activities and Sixth Division From not see them. It is intolerable." Idle talk. You feel that he may

Reuter.

"

leave it at any moment, and be discovered at home making trout files.

"It is this aloofness" from 11fe

Manchuria

Harry Dearth induced him to write lyrics. Then, in Mr. Lake's own Words:

A friend who has long experi- ence

of racing told me to-day

that he could recollect no pre- "What happened was that a 16-

..two saddles year-old pupil teacher in an ele-vious instance of

slipping in the same race. mentary school in Canterbury ... came into the presence of a girl nearly a year his junior with a mantle of dark hair

CHANG PAI TSE SURRENDERS

BRITISH MILK BUSINESS

Farmers Accept New Marketing Scheme

London, Sept. 7. BY an overwhelming majority

150,000 farmers of England and Wales have declared themselves in favour of the Government's milk "There followed three years of

marketing scheme, under which the such utter devotion as only the

sale and collection of milk is con- very young can know, then a fort-

trolled by a Board. hight of galloping constamption,

The result of a poll of farmers, Canton, Sept. 7. and a lad of 19 standing on a No-

General Wang recently takén un the proposed vember day beside a grave....

"It was six years later that I Chan Pin in command of the formation of National and re-

IEUTENANT.

13th of 18 Allowed Y VIVISECTION IN GERMANY that is the key to his unique pos Imperial sanction has been ob, woke up one morning... anyhow, 44th Kwangsi division, who is res-gional milk pools was announced:

London Treaty

the

Abolition. To Be Discussed

yesterday by the National Farmers

En favour, 96.45 "per cent. Union as follows.

Against 8.38 per cent.

per cent. British Wireless Servic

Tokyo, Sept. 1. The War Office announced that tion. He comes into affairs, as it

withdrawal to the words were written in 20 min-ponsible for the capture of Anyuan, were, from the outside, detatched, tained for the unimpassioned, bringing his own Japan of the Sixth Division which utes, before it was time to get up." has sent a liaison officer to the Mr. Lake was a member of the Cantonese Kiangs! command with was sent to Manchuria last Jan- atmosphere with him.

the object of effecting co-operation

On the basis of figures declared Philadephia, Sept. 7

"Sir Edward is, indeed, the least uary to relieve the Second Dleivirus staff of the "Daily Express."

100,000 BUTTERFLIES in the coming onslaught on Hat-

by Registers of producers, the num-- Nauen, Aug. 25. THE New United States $11,000,000

chang. democratic, as he is the least de shortly before the Jeho operat

ions. **

what is probably the most com- cruiser, "Minneapolis,"

Berlin: in connection with the monstrative of men. He belongs

Chang Pal Tre, a notorious Red ber of cows on August 19 last was The withdrawal of the Division.plete collection of butterfles in mercenary at gingkuo, southern 1,556,868. thirteenth of the 18 10,000-ton anti-vivisection legislation soon to more than any man to-day to the

Registered producers who voted; cruisers allowed under the London be declared by the Government, it great Whig tradition the Whig leaving only three-and-a-half the world will shortly be on show ganga has surrendered to 28011

divisions in Manchuria appears to in a Paris museum. Naval Treaty, was launched here is officially announced that the tradition touched by the strong indicate that the Army is not per- It contains about 100,000 speci- beforehand that if he surrendered 95.61 per cent of the cows

Nanking division. He was assured in favour of the scheme passe

yesterday: Reuter,

Prussian Prime Minister, Captain personality of Bishop Creighton. Goering, has called a conference who was his tutor when that great turbed by the reports that Soviet mens of butterflies caught by the to the government forces his life those who voted against own a of experts for August 29 to discuss man held a parsonage in North-Russia are concentrating troops to Swiss entomologist, M. Frhustor- would be spared-Central Press. "HELEN'S" INJURY the protection of dumb animals as umberland, and by the passionless the East of Siberia, though it is fer. They are chiefly from India

well as the closely related question spirit of the Balliol of Jowett. He understood the Military Authorl and Australia. of medical research. The confer distrusts the irresponsible way ties are planning to oragnise addi ence has the purpose of enabling wardness of public opinion, with tional Independent Railwayguard those concerned to have a thor-its quick emotions and passionate Battellons in Manchuria, The War ough discussion on the question in transitions. The public! the pub- Office also announced that reliefs the separate branches of research Me! how many fools does it take composed of units from the First, and medical work so that the to make the public?" he seems to Fourth. Seventh and Twelfth Divi- coming legislation may cover all say with a statesman of an ear-slons will be despatched to Tien- the possibilities for the prevention ller time. And yet, perhaps, that tsin shortly to replace units garri of cruelty and torture to animals. is unjust for there is no trace soned there--Reuter. At the same time the discussions of bitterness in him, and his should enable the delegates to patrician view is free from the without challenge. He is there by form a clear conception of what taint of contempt or the aira of a sort of royal authority, un vivisection really is, and at what the superior person. It sits on him conscious of itself, but imaged in point scientific necessity ends and naturally, He to the manner the bold sculpture of the face, the cruelty begins Trans-Ocean Ber- born. He takes his place at the steady eye and the governing

high table without pushing, and nose,

Possiblity Of Recur- rence Under Strain

Ban Francisco, Sept. T. MRS. Helen Wils-Moody must not touch a racket for a least six months, according to her father who says that the injury from which she is suffering is prone to recur under the strain of any com petition-Reuter.

vice..

SIR ROBERT HORNE'S TROPHY. Politics is a subject in which most of us find it hard to work up a great deal of enthusiasm at this holiday time of the year.

But there are some real enthu- siasts who are already planning and organising lecture courses and speaking competitions for the au- tumn when the long evenings are more muted to political discussion. One of them is Sir Robert Horne. He takes a great interest in the rapidly expanding system of Con servative political schools”.... and/

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