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TEL. C. 269.

NO. 23,206

POUND 二拜禮 號八十月六英港香

TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1927. 日九廿月五

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THE BRITISH PROPOSALS

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AMERICAN PRESS CRITICISMS REPLIED TO.

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EUROPEAN DRIVER. HAS LUCKY ESCAPE.

A FALL OF. 70 FEET.

remarkable escape

from

NATIONALISTS MAKE

·BIG CLAIMS.

TAXATION DECISIONS.

Shanghai, June 28, Chinese observers are very con-

The Nationalists under General fident that the Japanese will nou- tralize the Kiaotsi Railway zone very serious injury was the ex-Wang Tien-pei captured

con-perience of Mr. J. Chatterton, or chuang on the 2th, according to against fighting, but their fidence is not shared in Japanese the F. and O...Bank, on Saturday a Nanking telegram to hand. circles which point out that there at mid-day, when the Austin car One armoured train, and a large no change in the Japanese which he was driving toppled over quantity of ammunitions was cap policy except possibly that it is the hillside on Broadwood Road tured. more firmly tethered nowadays to and somersaulted down the em- the protection of the lives and bankment for a distance of fully property of Japanese nationals seventy feet. than it was at the time of the Nanking affair, says the N. C. Daily News correspondent at Pek- ing, writing on Thursday last.

Japanese insistence on protect It is pointed out that there are thres distinct proposals for de-ing its Legation and nationals is Peking, in face of the wavoring cision, compared with only one at the Washington conference. From of the other Powers is an example to-day's news cables, it appears that the British proposal for a reduc-of that determination tion of capital ships is the chief point of contention, and American opposition to alterations in the Washington Treaty is shown.

There is also the question of obtaining adherence to changes, if any, by France and Italy, and it is pointed out by the United States that both these countries were invited to the present conference, and will still be welcome. However, America is opposed to any changes in the Washington agreement unless those two Powers are also present at the discussions.

Apparently things are not progressing very smoothly at the naval disarmament conference at Geneva, but there is a denial that the discussions have reached a deadlock.

This is but ordinary procedure in the opinion of the Japanese There could not be any question of withdrawal except in the event of war between the an outbreak of two countries.

Of course, in outlying districts threat of such as Kalgan, any danger would call for the with- drawal of the Japanese nationals, but in other places, where their The British Consul General at New York has issued a long state-interests are vital they intend to

stand their ground. ment in reply to American Press criticisms of the British proposals,

There seems to be a good deal denying that there has been any change of front. Meanwhile, there of misunderstanding concerning

conference has been another meeting of the technical committee at Geneva, and an the impending

Tokyo. It has attracted as much official communique states that very satisfactory progress has been interest in Peking as Marshal Tso-lin's sell-elevation made.

But the Japanese throw cold water over any suggestion that it may lead to positive action China.

THE FAR EAST AND SUBMARINES.

London, June 27.

Reuter's American Service.

-Discussion Progresses.

Chang

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2

in

KOWLOON.

SUDDEN DEATH OF AIR MECHANIC.

TILDEN BEATS FRENCH CRACK PLAYER.

OFFER TO BETTY NUTHALL. POISON FOUND IN POCKET,

London, Juno 27. The body of Air Mechninic

At Wimbledon, there was a Davies, of H.M.S. Hernen, was Hanent ta

the Naval Hospital beavy downpour overnight, and

European the outer courts wero saturated. Mortuary from the Y.M.C.A. Kowloon last night.

Play began at the usual time in It appears that Mr. Davies book. ed a room at the Y.M.C.A. on Sun-the centre and number one courts, day, following a practice followed but rain soon caused an adjourn by many Navrl men in the Colony. ment.

Tilden won his first set against" General Wang left for the front As far as can be gathered he did yesterday morning.

not leave his room at all on Mon- Brugnen by 6-3, and led in the A later telegram from Nanking, day but complained to a room boy second by 4-1 when rain fell Mr. Chatterton, who lives at the claims the capture of Lincheng of not feeling well.

Later, the match was resumed; of Broadwood Road (The by General Wang's 29th Division:

In the evening Mr. P. Sands, the and Tilden won, 6-3, 6-1, 9-6, 7-6. The Nationalists under General Assistant Secretary, was notified, Tilden played his usual power Ridge), has permission to drive a small Austin Seven to his resio Yiu-cho crossed the Grand

that the deceased was in a fitful and aggressive game, with dence. A small plateau Canal on the 26th, and subsequent and going to Mr. Davies' room frequent cannon-ball service aces, found two other residents with and excellent back-hand play, made on the right hand side of ly captured Tai-er-chuang- the road as a parking space, and General Pei Chung-hsi arrived him, Believing that the man's which he followed up with bril Mr. Chatterton was backing the at Tincheng on the 26th to direct condition was serious Mr. Sands liant smashes at the not. Brug- car on to this spot when he ver operations on the Shantung front and also for Dr. J. C. Macgown.placed cleverly and showed good telephoned for a Naval surgeonnon was on the defensive, but ran the edge (unprotected by any railing). The car toppled ovur General Yeh Kai-chen engaged in arrived, Mr. Davies had collapsed.

The 44th Nationalist army under By the time the doctors had volleying! and careered down the precipitate severe, struggle with the Shan-

Only two. other matches were An ambulance was summoned slope. Fortunately, the hood was tung forces in Mengyin, which and he was taken to the Naval completed, these being or was up, and Mr. Chatterton was pro-lasted for two days and two nights, IIospital where fe

ladies' doubles. The weather lected by it, but he was violently and resulted in

very dismal and cold, the Shantung nounced extinct. thrown out after the car had made troops retreating to Sintai." a couple of turns.

A police report states that heavy showers, General Feng Yu-hsiang forces when a search was made through He sustained savere cuts and under General Feng Cheng-wuh, the pockets of the clothing worn bruises, but fortunately, no are advancing along the Grand by Mr. Davies a quantity of serious injury.

Canal to attack Shantung-Nam powdered cyanide of potassium The Austin Seven proceeded on Chung Pao.

was found.. Hs downward career, striking trees and boulders, and finally

Abolition of Likin, came to rest, right way up, in a

Shanghal, June 28. crevasse fully 70 feet from the spot

Central Financial Con- at which it had left the rond. The car, which was only five weeks day. The most important deci ference in Nanking closed yester- old, was almost totally wrecked, it being so badly damaged that it sions at the Conference were to had to be taken apart before it abolish the Likin taxation and in- erease the Customs revenues, on August 1.

could be salvaged.

ILLEGAL STRIKES.

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The

pro-

was pro-

with

Ladies' Doubles.

Mrs. Godfree and. Miss Betty Nuthall led 3-1 in their match

with Mrs. Lycett and Miss Colyer, in the first set, when play was. suspended. On resuming, the for- SOUTH AFRICA'S FLAG. mer pair won, 6-3, 6-3, and Mrs.

Godfree d Miss Nuthall enter the last eight.

DESIGN INACCEPTABLE TO GOVERNMENT.

now

In the second round, Miss Helen Wills and Miss Ryan beat Mrs. Covell and Miss Sterry, 6-2, 6-3,' "New Professional.

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Offer to Betty Nuthall. Miss Betty Nuthall has received an offer of £12,000 to turn profes sional, but there is no likelihood of the offer being accepted.

Capetown, June 27. An informed student of Japan-

The Likin collection in the The Senute read the Flag Bill Mr. Cochran announces that ese affairs put it to me in this

different provinces will be placed for the third time, after adopting Mrs. Dewhurst, the champion of way: "There is reason for mis

under the direct control of the by 17 votes to 12 an amendment Ceylon, has turned professional, understanding in the foreign mind

Central Finance Ministry, which proposing, as a substitution for and she will play against Malle. France and Italy, might be called because of the peculiar circum-

will make a careful survey and the Government's flag design, an- Lenglon at Phyllis Court, Henley, The main dificulty of the naval when the present discussion has stances attaching to this confer-

LOCK-OUTS NOW INCLUDED." report on the present conditions other design, consisting of the this week. It is well advertized be-

It is recalled that Mrs. Dew tuttun conference at Genera ended, to consider the Bitish pro-enee.

of the collection, amounts of Union Jack, the old Free State appears to be the British desire posal to revise the Washington cause the Premier, Baron Tanaka,

At the meeting of the Legislative loans now being secured with the fir, the Transvaal "Vierkleurhurst, at Wimbledon in 1920, was and the Americen refusal to dia- agreement, has found little sup while he was in the opposition Council which, is due to take plase Likin tax, etc. Such surveys and and four silver stars on a blue kept waiting on the court a whole cuss the reduction of capital ships, port in official circles.

was such a bitter critic of Mr on Thursday afternoon, the Hon. reports are to be completed befield representing the provinces, afternoon because Malle. Longlen and, according to Inspired news- It is pointed out by the State Shidehara's alleged inactivity. Attorney General will move the first fore July 31.

divided quarterly by a silver cross. failed to appear. paper statements from New York, Department that Italy and France fle was also courageous enough reading of the Ordinance dealing

General Hertzog intimated that The Tobacco Tax. the American insistence of com- were invited to the present confer-to place a change in the China with illegal strikes, the terms of

the proposed design, was inaccept- plete parity of naval strength with enec, and will still be welcome policy, together with financial re- which were published by its on Sa-

The Conference also decided to able to the Government, since such Great Britam,

form, in the forefront of his pro- urday. Statements by the delegates of

gramme on the eve of taking over The Bill, as it will now be intro- unify the Tobacco Tax system, and a flag would be merely the British all three Powers, are published

the premiership. But he bit offduced, has been amended na com- to lovy a unified 50 per cent. tax Ensign.

It therefore appears inevitable to-day denying reports of a dead-

more than he could chew and he part with the draft Bill published throughout the different Geneva, June 27.

that if the Assembly reject the realized this within twenty-four on Saturday, as it will now relate vinces.

She has accepted' an invitation lock, and exhorting patience with

The technical committee of the hours of assuming office. the conference, where three dis conference had a three-hour dis-alized that there could not be any to illegal lock-outs..

He re- not only to illegal strikes but also This tax is to be collected in Senate's amendment this will mean to play against America for the A new sub- the factories, and for foreign that the Bill will have to be passed Wightman Cup, za has also Mige tinct proposals are the basis of cussion after which the American change for some time to come and section has been introduced which tobacco at the Customs.

again by both Houses, probably at Jean Fry. discussion, compared with only delegates said that things were he is only concerned now not to reads:

Another important decision of a special Mession in November, Mrs. Nuthall, interviewed by one at the Washington Conference going well.

(2) It is hereby declared that the conference was to adopt the whereafter, if the Senate persists Reuter, stated, "Betty's amateur It is significant, however, that The discussion was most friend-be caught napping. This is the

meaning of the 2,000 troops in any lock-out is illegal if it has any suggestion, of Marshal Chiang, in its present attitude, a joint sit status is worth more than any- Mintes, in densing that, he had ly. An offcial communique says Tsingtao. His conferences and object other than or in addition to outlined in his speech at the ting of both Houses will have to body can offer as an inducement Mr. Hugh Gibson, of the United

are just so many the furtherance of a trade dispute Conference, clearly to distinguish be held before the Bill is finally to forsake it. She is only a child, asked for fresh instructions from that very satisfactory progress was commissions

within the trade or industry in the Central Government revenues passed.--Reyter.

and I would not dreara of con- Washington, as he already possess- The important question of decid- attempts at window-dressing."

There are others equally well-which the employers locking-out are from those of the local govern-

senting to her becoming a profes ed instructions, reiterated the

slonal, even if she were older, view that capital ships were out- ing the particular types of vessels side the scope of the conference of small combatant value to be informed, who say this is not a engaged and is a lock-out designed ments.-Nam Chung Pao.

to look ment either directly or by inflicting

The offer was definitely made, and Mr. W. C. Bridgeman said that a excluded from limitation will be Foreign Office but a Saiyukai Cen- or calculated to coerce the Govern

just as definitely refused." like a Government conference for hardship upon the community; and good many points of agreement agreed upon at the conference.

The proceedings showed a mark reasons of domestic politics. it is further declared that it is ille- And been reached, but some of the

It is even said that several gal to commench, or to continue, or British proposals were such that eu desire on the part of the dele neither of the other Powers was gations to meet each others views: friends of Mr. Yoshizawa helped to apply any sums in furtherance lo manoeuvre the parley to press or support of, any such illegal lock- able to give decisions without re- Reuter.

home his title to the portfolio for out." ference to its Government.

Foreign Affairs. Such an pointment, it is said, is about the biggest surprise that one is just fied in looking forward to us a re-

Viscount Saito expressed confid- ence in the conference reaching complete agreement.-Reuter. "

British Statement.

made.

No Headway.

ference which is made

BRITISH COMMUNIST CHILDREN.

ap-

For the purposes of clearer de- finition, the following sub-acction has also been added:Without prejudice to the generality of the expression trade or industry,' workmen shall be deemed to be within the same trade or industry if their wages or conditions of cm- ployment are determined in accord-

'YANGTSZE QUIET.

Resumption of Commerce,

Shanghai, June 27, The Yungtaze Valley remaine perfectly quiet, and trade is being resumed on a small scale.

Shanghai is normal, and there is nothing to report. Neval less.

£5,000,000 CAPITAL.

COAL COMPANIES COMBINE.

Mother Reconsiders.

Seen to-day at Wimbledon,, Mrs.' London, June 27. Nuthall declared, "Mr. Cochran Judgment permitting the amal-last week made me a large offer, gamation of two large groups of for my daughter Betty to turn pra- anthracite coal companies in South fessional. I refused. Mr. Coch Wire-Wales with a capital of £5,000,000 ran called this morning at my was given to-day by Mr. Justice home, and greatly increased the Sankey, at a sitting of the Railway offer, and I asked for two days to and Canal Commission.

consider it."!

That Ultimatum.

Hankow, June 27. No further information concern-

He said the amalgamation would

It is unofficially reported that enable research to be conducted for the increased offer is in the

national asset which the company Such research could

ance with the conclusions of the ing Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's the best way of working the great vicinity of £20,000-Reuter. sume joint industrial council, con- ultimatum, and the conference in possessed. ciliation board, or other similar connexion therewith, is yet avail-nat be carried oh by merely indivi body, or in accordance with agreeable.-Naval: Wireless. ments made with the same employer or group of employers."

CHINESE FINED FOR MAKING EXPLOSIVES.

Geneva, June 23. Great Britain has failed utterly thus far to win the United States to her proposal to reopen discus-sult of this conference. New York, June 27. sion of the Washington treaty dur-; .. The British Consul General, on ing the tripartite naval confer- behalf of the British Ambassador, ence here. has issued a lengthy statement in In continuing her efforts in that reply to American Press criticisms direction, Great Britain has utiliz of the British attitude at Geneva, ed one of her most skilled diplo- The Consul General denies that mats, Lord Robert Cecil, who to-

OVATED ON ARRIVAL IN the British proposals as regards day conferred with Ambassador

RUSSIA. battleships and cruisers are in- Hugh Gilson, chief of the Ameri- consistent with the spirit of the can delegation.

Lord Cecil laid great stress on Washington Treaty, or constitute

Leningrad, June 27. a change of front, and adds that the practicability and expediency

The delegation of English Com- GUNPOWDER CHARGE. it is impossible for experts to of the British plan from the view- construe the British proposals as point of economy and expediency. munist children have arrived in regards submarines as an attempt Ambassador Gibson, however, good health despite a stormy They were to shut out the United States from told correspondenta to-night that voyage from London, the Far East or anywhere in the the American delegation feit that ovated by a crowd at the pier.

The children will proceed to world.

President Coolidga had convened Dealing with the theory ventilat, the conference for the very clear Moscow after a short stay here. ed by the Geneva correspondents and explicit purpose of extend--Reuter. that armed merchantmen can be Ing the principles of the Wash- converted into a powerful float ington treaty to auxiliaries, and capable of meeting armed cruisers, while this did not exclude other he emphasises that the American questions, he bolloves the time to delegation has not advanced this discuss them was in 1931, when view, while Admiral Jellicoe has the signatories to the Washing- remarked "This is a landsman's ton treaty would meet again. idea."-Router's American Service,

Meets Lord Cecil. No Alterations Wanted.

Seeking some basis on which the Washington, June 27! mutually conflicting disarmament The American Government a proposed by Great Britain, the dcelsion not to alter the provisions United States and Japan at the of the Washington arms confer naval conference here might be ence treaty with only three Powers reconciled, Ambassador Gibson represented at Geneva, 18 reiterat held a private conversation to-day ed to-day?"

with Lord Cecil of the British de Suggestions from Geneva that a legation. Avo-Power conference, including (Continued on Page 14)

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MOSCOW SHOOTING

AFFAIR.

TRIBUNAL OFFICIAL

WOUNDED.

Moscow, June 27. Orlov, chairman of the Moscow, of the Military department Tribunal, was wounded with a r volver shot which was fired alle the Tribunal premises.

The assailant has been arre -Beuter,

SUN'S POSITION.

dual concerns, but must be the re- sult of a larger and stronger unit. |--British Wireless.

A FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

BRIXTON BY-ELECTION. AMERICAN JOURNALIST AND

SEAT RETAINED BY CONSERVATIVE.

London, June 27,

WIFE KILLED.

Belgrade, June 27.

The American journalist, Mr Edgar Aldrich, and his wife, who were engaged in a tour of the

Kiangsu Withdrawal.

Tsingtao, June 11. A member of the staff of Chi-lu University at Tsinan who return- ed here last night reports that Marshal Sun Chuan-fang had arrived at Tainan with about! A raid carried out by the Police 25,000 troops. An interview this at a matshed on the hillside at Kow-morning with some of Marshal At Brixton by-election, owing toworld, have been killed in a motor loon Tong, yosterday, revealed the Sun's officers who came here from the raising to the Peerage of Sir accident naar Sarajevo-Reuter. presence of a miniature gunpowder Haichow and are to join him as Davison Daiziel, Bart., the result factory, supervised by a Chinese soon as possible, confirms the reof the polling was: watchman, who was arrested and this morning charged before Mr. W. port. These officers declare aloo that Marshal Sun's forces are to Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy proceed directly to Peking. As with munafacturing gunpowder this is hardly more incredible and with being in unlawful posses- than much we have known to alon of ten cattles of the powder.

10,358,

FLYING TOUR.

Warsaw, June 27.

Mr. N. Colman (Conserva-

tive) Mr. J. Adams (Labour). 6,932. Mr. F. J. Laverack (L

beral)

6,134 CHAMBERLIN AT WARSAW. -Reuter, The defendant, it was alleged by have occurred it in passed along

[At the last election, Sir Davi- the prosecution, was caught in the 48 news to be received with re-

Bon Dalziel polled 16,755, Mr. act of preparing a certain sub-serve.

About sunset yesterday even-Adams 7,210, and Mr. Laverick stance, which on examination proved to contain the ingredienta ng two sampana loaded with 4,871).

sont out to the Used in manufacturing gunpowder. bread were

the first charge, a fine of $200, soldiers on board the two Japanese healternative of three vessels but up to that time they labour, was imposed, had not been allowed to land. nd count his Wor-Negotiations are proceeding with ar fine of $20! (Continued on Page 14.)

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand Lighting-up

2/0.1/16.

7.11 p.m.

The US. Atlantic flier Chamber lin, with his companion Levine, arrived here from Marlenbad, and had a most.cordial welcome,

He was officially greeted by the civil authorities and by Mr. Stete son, the United States Minister

Reuter