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Я A THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1928.

日五十月二潤

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PREMIER DROPS A EGYPT TO THINK TOBACCO ABOARD COLONY'S BUDGET CANTON IS STILL FOR AFGHAN'S NEW ROYAL OAK COURT

BOMBSHELL.

RUBBER RESTRICTION TO BE ABOLISHED.

MARKET BREAKS IN LONDON AND NEW YORK.

COMMONS CRITICISM.

London, Apr. 4. Mr. Stanley Baldwin announced

in tho House of Commons, to-day

that the Cabinet has decided that

AGAIN,

BRITAIN'S DISCRETION ON RESERVED POINTS.

REFUSAL. OF TREATY.

SHIP.

|IMPORTANT RULING IN

COURT.

MUST BE UNDER CONTROL OF CAPTAIN.

SURPLUS.

TRIBUTE TO SERVICES OF MR.

BERNARD.

BRIGHTER OUTLOOK.

A notable increase of the Colony'e

revenue over the estimates was mentioned by H.E. the Governor in the Legislativo Council this afternoon, in the

UNEASY.

| MUCH RED ACTIVITY IN

PROVINCE.

MASSACRES REPORTED IN THE SOUTH-WEST.

PALACE.

BRITISH-MADE FURNITURE IS

PURCHASED.

BIG SEND-OFF TO-DAY.

London, Apl. Z

The King" and · Queen of AL- ghanistan leave London to-morrow morning. Princo Henry, who has just nasumed the title of Duke of Gloucester, and Sir Austen Cham-

them off.

MARTIAL.

TRIAL OF CAPTAIN K. DEWAR.

ÓMISSION TO SALUTE CALLED "TRIVIAL RUBBISH.”

MARSHAL LI WANTED. berigin will be at Victoria to se ADMIRAL QUESTIONED.

Lord Allenby will accompany them to Dover, and the Channel

Gibraltar, Apr. 4. The trial by court-martial of

London, April 4, Replying to the Egyptian Note, on which Nahar Pasha make a state- ment to journalists yesterday, Sir Auston Chamberlain declines to accept the Note as a correct expo- TECHNICAL OFFENCE.

course of a tribute to the Hon. Mr. sition of reintions between Great Britain and Egypt, or of their

The question of the respon-D. G. M. Bernam, who has just left

Although, according to Chinese respective obligations,

Sir Austen declares, that as the sibility of a ship's captain in ro- for Home.

reports, the situation In Canton it Egyptian Government is refused gard to control of cigarettes and The Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and self is rather alisier, › messages crossing will be made in a special- Captain Kenneth Dowar, charged. resty, which aimed at securing tobacco included in ship's stores the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow both from other parts of the province ly chartered boat to Calais, where with accepting Commander Daniel's all restrictions on the export of the settlement of the four points whilst his boat is in port was eulogised Mr. Bernard's services show that there is much. Commun. the King and Queen will say good-letter and forwarding It to Rear- rubber from Malaya and Ceylon reserved under the declaration of raised on the resumption of the and Str. Cecil Clementi in reply Ist activity in Kwangtung. There bye to Sir Francis Humphry Admiral Kelly, was opened to-day, will be removed on November 1st. 1922, the status quo ante continues. case, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell said: "Gentleman, I heartily en-is news of trouble on the upper Colonel Wickham and the other Bri-

which next, and that the existing restric-

One of the first witnesses called The reserved points, he states, this morning, in

the dorse what Sir Henry Pollock and course of the East: River, in the Lish représentatives, who have been tion scheme will continue un- remain reserved to the absolute dia- Chinese chief steward of the river Sir Shouson Chow have said. Mr. northern part of Kwangtung and with them during their visit towns Rear-Admiral Bernard Collard, altered in the meantime.

who giving ovidence, replying cretion of the British Government steamer Tung On was charged Bernard became a member of the also in the remote south-western England.

possession of dutiable Executive and Legislative Councils districts, where "Reds" are said No definite time has been fixed to the Prosecutor said his The Promier stated that the Gov-the Egyptian Government exer- with

Capt. Dewar... ernment had received the report of cising its independent authority cigarettes, His Worship register- of this Colony, in the dark and to be indulging in massacre and for the visit of their Afghan Majes relations with

ties to Russia. They have given were "correct, but not in- the Committee of Civil Research on subject to satisfying His Majesty's ed a conviction on the charge of dangerous days of the spring of incendiarism.

|possession and imposed a nominal |1926. .

As a consequence, Canton off-many orders for household and timato", and he found it almost im- the question of rabber restriction, Government on these matters.

The points reserved under the fine of $5. with the result that it had been

"We then had seldom before usciale are somewhat uneasy, and on other goods during their stay in possible to make friends with Capt. Prior to the commencement of a choice between good and bad.Tuesday they despatched a further of the new palace being built at

England. Many of the apartments Dewar. decided to bring the Stevenson 1922 Declaration were the questions of security of communications in

Admiral Collard could not say Behemo to an end.

Mr. D. Kirkwood (Lab.):-Why Egypt, defonce, protection of for this morning's hearing, his Wor-We were usually confronted by telegram to Nanking urging. Mar-Kabul will be fitted with British he placed implicit confidence in

should there be a restriction on

rubber?

Too Long to Explasti.

́would take a quarter of an hour to oxplain that, but he could assure Mr. Kirkwood that there would be

a debate on the subject and full information would be given.

Sir Frank Nelson:-Does the removal of the rubber restriction scheme require the sanction of the House of Commons?

Mr. Baldwin. asked for notice of the question, but said he thought it could be done by order of the

Colonial Office.

Mr. Noll MacLean:-If you have' the right to remove restrictions or Impose restrictions, what is the use of having a debate on the matter?

eign interests, and protection of minorities and the Sudan: Reuter,

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MORE BIG SALES AT

SOTHEBY'S.

been

son.

case.

Rullag Desired.

4

Trouble on Railway.

while most of the armed corps of

Capt. Dewar.

Dramatic Encounter.

Tho latter sharply CTOBETM BRITAIN & NANKING. · examined Admiral Collard, the questions and answers being loud and deliberate and In-. the dramatic on- tensifying

1927-

| counter of the protagonista in the case. For example, Admiral' Col- lard omphatically refused to imagine himself the bandmaster: and, when pressed to reply "yea". or "no," said he would answer as be thought fit.

Captain Dewar, continuing his cross-examination, referred to Collard's romark Rear-Admiral

Fed Up With Dewar? that he was fed up with his ship.

Rear Admiral Collard denied having said that, declaring that what he said was "I am fed up with my Flag-Captain."

ship announced that he held that nothing but a choice of evils. In shai Li Chai-sum to return imme the master of the ship had a cer-taking the difficult decisions which dintely. It is generally felt in made furniture bought in London.

--British Wireless. tain responsibility as regards the had then to be made, I felt that I Canton that the situation will not control of the cigarettes whilst a could implicitly reply on Mr. be stablllised or confidence · com- Mr. Baldwin replied that it FAMOUS DIARY GOES TO teamer was alongside the wharf, Bernard to interpret to go the true pletely restored until Marshal Ll

and that that responsibility could opinions of the local mercantile comas back. U. S. A.

[not be delegated to another per-community as well as of the Hong- kong General Chamber of Com- merce, and that he would in his

NO SETTLEMENT YET turn explain faithfully, to all with

On Tuesday, the tension bad re-

REACHED. Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask, defend-whom he came in contact the real laxed considerably, and pedestrian ing pointed out that, if that wore policy underlying the actions of traffle was normal after nightfall,

London, Apl. 4. the Hongkong Government. troops and police pickets were less

Sir Austen Chamberlain, stated, London, Apr. 4.

so, the proper person who should Dr. Rosenbach, the Philadel- have been charged was the master weathered the storm and the raids than on previous nights.

The Colony has now safely vigilant in their searches and in the House of Commons to-day that no satisfactory settlement had financial outlook is much brighter," pian collector, at Sotheby's to- of the ship.

His Worship agreed, but added As the Council knows, we budget-

Yesterday morning, however, been reached in the recent negotia day, bought for £10,500 "Ward," a

ment of China on the settlement of. diary kopt by the Vicar of Strat- that the Superintendent of Imports ed for a deficit of a million nowe reached Canion that an altions with the Nationalist Govern ford-on-Avon from 1629 to 1681.& Exports had chosen to proceed dollars in respect of the year arming "Red" uprising had occur the claims arising out of the in-

It contains most valuable roagainst the steward, and his Wor-1927. But the year's working has red in the northern districts of ferences to Shakespeare and most ship found they had made out a in fact realised a surplus of half Kwangtung, in the vicinity of the cidents at Nanking on March 24th,

a million dollars.;

Kwangtung section of the Canton-

The negotiations would be con- of the diary have never

Hankow Railway. Mr. Leask:-This case

tinued by the Consul-General In has "So wa began the thiefal your published.

It appears that a large band of Shanghai and the Consul General aroused considerable Intorest now current with a tota)... "plus A frst edition of Ptolemy's

amongst river steamers,

and of assets over linbilities amoCommunist bandits, numbering for Nanking, as opportunity offer Geography of 1417 was sold for masters would like a ruling from ing to about four million dollars. 2000 strong, stormed and seized ed. British Wireless,

Moreover, the first quarter of the konghui village in the morn- year 1928 has now gone by; and inglater another party of The Usual Practice, I am glad to say that the Colony's "Red" " assailed the rail- Mr. Leask then informed his revenue, for that quarter shows way, with the ult that all the an increase of more than seven officiala on duty as Pahkonghul Worship that he had a number of lakhs of dollara over the estimate. Station abandoned theirts and letters from masters of river

"Therefore, although caution burzled to the Sunkat to se steamers showing what the prac-is still necessary, confidence in assistance. Lice had been during the last few the future is justified. In the Quite a number of the flourish- years. In several instances más achievement of this happy result, ing villages in the vicinity and in DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS AT

ters, with twenty-five years' ex- Mr. Bernard played a notable the Ying Täk district have, also TOKYO AND KABUL.

London, Apl. 4. perience had written to say that part, not only as member of the suffered from Communist activi the practice of giving the key to the Executivo and Legislative ties, but at present it cannot be Defence has announce that his The New Zealand Minister for London, Apr. 4. A Treaty just concluded between the steward or some other person Councils, but also as Chairman of ascertained to what extent the Government has decided to

had been adopted.

the Hongkong General Chamber "Red" desperadoes have devastat chase eight "Moth" Afghanistan and Japan provides His Worship said that he could of Commerce and as the head of ed these districts. Troops wore from England.

aeroplanes

Captain Dewar's Protest.. for an exchange of diplomatic mis- sions at Tokyo and Kabul and the not listen to an ex-partc statement the great firm of Jardine, Mathe immediately rushed from Canton Four are to be sent to the Auck- Rear-Admiral Collard declared

son & Company, Wo shall miss him to the affected areas. establishment of commercial rela-from Mr. Leask.

land and Christchurch Amateur that a Captain should make his re- tions, provision for travel and other Mr. G. R. Sayer said he was not sadly from our deliberations and

Flying Club, while the others will port verbally. A written com- facilities for their respective aware what the practice had been we do well to place on record our To Dianffect Troops and Police,

be used for the training purposes plaint was not justified until all for the last twenty-five years, and warm appreciation of his

Meantime, some uneasiness has at the Government aerodromo at other Service methods had been he was about to refer to the re-vices to Hongkong.""

been caused by the authorities dis-Christchurch.-British Wireless, turns, when his Worship said:

|covering that Communist propa-

Mr. Kirkwood's Suspicions.

Mr. Kirkwood declared:-Thore is something behind all this.

Lieut.-Commdr. J. M. Kenworthy intimated that he would raise the question again to-morrow.

Members of the House intervlow- ed by Reuter subsequent to Mr. Baldwin's announcement general- ly expressed surprise at its nature. Sir Robert Hutchison said "It will mean disastor to the industry. Thousands will be ruthed. Many estates will have to close, and the number of unemployed in Malaya will be a menace to the Government. Ultimately the con- trol of the industry will pass into Americiin hands,"

“Brutal Declaration.”

£3,400 to à Britisher, Mr. Maggs.- Renter.

"

JAPANESE TREATY WITH AFGHANS.

nationals.

Sir William Lane-Mitchell said Reuter has been informed that "Mr. Baldwin's brutal declaration the Treaty was signed in London indicated that he has no apprecia-to-day by the Afghan Minister to tion of the effect of the state London and the Japanese Ambus-

'ment."

Sir Frank Nelson?-"The ideal- slon is deplorable from an electoral point of view."

Mr. H. E. Crawford:-"Tho re- moval of the restrictions will mean In the long ran that efficient estates will become established

sador.--Reuter.

AMERICA AND DUTCH DISAGREE.

and the speculative grower will not OWNERSHIP OF ISLAND NEAR be so prominent,"

Absoluto consternation

was

caused on the Rubber Exchange by Mr. Baldwin's announcement,

PHILIPPINES.

The Hague, Apr.. 4.

you.

am not prepared to hold that

ger-

this defendant has committed an POLICE RAID YAUMATI

offence because the 'Nil' return has been sent in. I merely hold that this man is in possession of in the possession of the master. 1 cigarettes which should have beeri

would go no further than that."

"Vexatious" Prosecution.

HOUSE.

ALLEGED COUNTERFEITER ARRESTED,

Canton troops and among membera of the Police Fores, endeavouring to induce them to revolt.

gandista were active among the.

In this connexion, it is stated that the police recently threatened a general walk-out because "the Government had not been able to As a result of a raid at No. 356, pay their wages regularly; and two Mr. Leask, addressing his Wor. Portland Street by a party of de-days ago the authorities paid to

tectives early yesterday morning, them one month's wages.

The uneasiness in Canton has hip, pointed out that it was merea quantity of paraphernalia for ly by an accident that the cigaret-the manufacture of counterfeit caused the value of the Central tea were discovered. He under-

Bank notes to decline from 63 por taken into custody.

4

cont

·NEW, ZEALAND AVIATION.

"MOTH" PLANES FROM ENGLAND.

CALCUTTA TROUBLE

SPREADING.

BURNS COMPANY DISMISS 7,000 STRIKERS.

He emphatically refused to admit that his omission to" re-.. turn the saluto" would havo a bad effect on the discipline aboard. H.M.S. Royal Oak, adding "Dia- cipline in a good ship does not depend on that sort of trivial rub- bish."

..

He considered, he said when further questioned, that Captain Dewar was entitled under Article

of the report was made in a pro- Eleven to make a report, provid-

per manner.

Employed.

He denied that he threatened to court-martial the chaplain for making a complaint to Captain. Dawar.

More than once pulled up by the President on the ground that the questions he was putting were in- admissible, Captain Dewar asked that a protest ha entered on the minutes "against the limitations placed in the cross-examination: of this witness."

Calcutta, April 4. The trouble on the East Indian Railway is spreading, the latest repercussion of the lock-out at the Laloonk railway workshops, being Messrs. Burn Company's shops, the who went out on, strike in sym- pathy.

The Burns Company tures waggons for the East Indian Railway.Reuter.

M, Max Huber, the Swiss-states.stood that it was due to an enquiry/coins was. seized, and one man cont. to somewhere; near 50 per the dismissal of 7,000 men of

2 man, who was appointed as arbi-of the Revenue Department as to The arrested man was formally Crash on Market.

trator, in the dispute between the the sale of cigarettes on board the charged, before Mr. W. S. Schofield More "Red" Risings. The price of apot rubber dropped United States and the Nother steamer. The officers of the Re at the Kowloon Magistracy this

Coupled with the report of the 2d. per tb almost immediately. lands in respect of the sovereignty venue Department went on board morning, with unlawfully having There were, however, few buyers, of the Island of Palmas, between in search of a hawker and then in his possession three moulds Communist plots in the northern part of the province; a report reach- most of the members, preferring to the Dutch East Indies and the they saw the cigarettes in the cabianon which there was impressed ea Canton yesterday to the effect wait the trend of events, Sub- Philippine Islands, has decided net. The prosecution was, in Mr. resemblance of both sides of the that despite the fact that weilath- sequently there was a slight re- that the island is definitely Dutch Leask's opinion, to put it mildly, King's current silver coin.

vexatious..

Intimating the possibility of been recaptured by the Government INDIAN EDITOR FACES covery, but the market was dis-territory.-Reuter,

Regarding the departmental or other charges being preferred troops, Chiuyang, another city near organized,

der put in by Mr. Sayer, Mr. Leask against the defendant, Inspector at hand, has been seized by Com said the Captain had never seen Fallon' applied for a remand for munist despradoce, causing the the order, nor had he signed any-one week, which was granted. situztion in Swatow to become thing acknowledging receipt of that order,

"

Rubber shares all fell heavily,

The commodity has declined 78. TROTSKY'S MURDER por b, since the Premier first re-

ferred the question to the Civil

Research Committee.

Renter's Lobby Correspondent

DENIED.

Continuing, Mr. Leask submit. CASE STRUCK-OUT.

states that it is improbable that MOSCOW SCOUTS CURRENTted that, the master was entitled to

thore, will be a rubber discussion

on the motion for'adjournment to- morrow. On the contrary, the de-

REPORTS.

Moscow, April 4. bato is much more likely to take The reports current in Paris that place on the Colonial Office Estim-M. Trotsky, the exiled communist ates later in the Seasion when it leader, has been murdered, are will be possible to cover a wider untrue--Reuter, field--Reutor

New York Staggered

GENERAL WRANGEL ILLL

delegate one of his subordinates to take charge of the key. "It is Intolerable do think that the master should hold the keys in his peeltet," added Mr. Leask.

PLAINTIFF NO LONGER IN- COLONY.

slen, in the vicinity of Swatow, has

SEDITION CHARGE.

Objections to

Court

At the opening of the trial Prosecutor, Rear-Admiral: Rear Admirals Herbert Meade and Boyle, successfully objected to manufacW: Tomkinson as members of the prising Rear-Admirale Townsend. Court, which sat minus them, com (President), L G. Preston, and W. ML Kerr, and Captains Ozbroan, Carrington, Money, James, Mun- roc, Bedford, Hamilton and Ob borne, The charges wore then read, and Capt. Dewar pleaded. not guilty, the charges being:

Firstly, an act of prejudice to SWARAJIST SUPPORTER AND good order and discipline in that

ALLOWED BAIL.

he accepted and forwarded to Vice- Admiral J. D. Kolly, commanding Culcutta, Apr. 4.

Firat Battle Squadron, through Mr. Bakshi, the editor of the Rear-Admiral Bernard Collard, Swarajist newspapers; Banglar | the letter addressed to him by Com- Further reports of "Red" Insur Katha and Forward, was arrested mandor Darilal, the terms where rections have been brought back by to-day on charges of sedition of wore subversive of discipline. travellers who have recently, ar- After a brief court hearing he rived in Canton from Yeung Chun, was released on ball-Reuter. one of the big districts in the South-western part of Kwangtung.

agala tense. This news was con- tained in a telegram which the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Swatow dispatched to the Canton Government yesterday, asking for help.

London, Apr. 4.

Criticisms,

Secondly, accepting and for

In the Summary Court this His Worship said that as the law morning a case was mentioned in stood, the Captain must have it In his pocket or in his cabin. In which Madame Flint sued Mrs.

It is stated that an army of ROYAL VISIT TO CONTINENT. Warding to Admiral Kelly through imposing a fine of $6, he said the FE Cameron for $350,28.

The plaintiff did not appear, 2,000 "Red" troops which arrived avidenco offered by the prosecution only pointed to a technical offence neither was she represented. at Yeung Chun after their defint and that there was no evidence of Mr. O, E. C, Marton appeared in Canton in December has started disposing of the cigarettes or of for the defendant and asked for massacres, Incendioxirm and band "The Duke and Duchess of York amuggling.

the case, to be struck out, saying activities in many of the villages Mr. Leask asked for an order for he understood the Madame Flint in the Yeung Chun district. As a left London to-day on a private local market immediately dropped "White" Russian; who lives at the return of the cigarettes, but had left the Colony

rosult, some hundreds of villagers visit to the Continent. Their Brussels, is seriously Ill suffering his Worship pointed out that no His Lordship accordingly struck have been killed, the title deeds of Royal Highnesses will return superfor

their fields and houses destroyed about the middle of next week Collard

British Wireless. from abdominal catarrh. Reuter, confiscation order had been made, the case out,

and their property, looted.

New York, Apr. 4. Rubber circles were most excit

od at Mr. Stanley Baldwin's un- nouncement and prices on the

five cents per lb.

(Continued on, Page 14),

Brussels, Apr. 4. General. Wrangel, the famous

Admiral Collard, the letter ad- dressed to him by Commander- Dantel, which letter was contrary to King's Regulations and Admir alty Instructions in that it con- tained remarks and criticisms on officer Rear Admiral the conduct and orders of his

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