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LORD CUSHENDUN'S STATEMENT.

DIVERGENCE OF OPINION SOLVED.

NO SECRET CLAUSES.

Geneva, Aug. 30. Lord Cushenden, interviewed by Reuter's chrrespondent with

regard to the Anglo-French ved

FRAUDS.

PEACE PACT.

YOUNG HUGO STINNES SENT TO GAOL.

ADHERENCE LIKELY

SECRETARY ARRESTED

Berlin, Aug. 30. A sensation has been entred throughout Germany by the send- ing to gol of the big business- leader, Hugo Stirios, son of the late Huge Stinnes, who was the richest man in Germany during the Inflation period.

Stinnes' imprisonment is in connexion with War Loan frauds, for which his secretary, Von;

Waldow, was arrested some weeks

TO-DAY.

NATIONALISTS HFPE FOR RECONITION.

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WU PEI-FU REPORT.

Shanghai, Aug. 30. c. T. Wang, the Nanking Foreign At 11 o'clock this morning, Dr. Minister, received a number of

Jun

CONTINUES.

PLANE WRECKAGE DISCOVERY

NOT CONFIRMED.

PLIGHT OF A SEALER,

Copenhagen, Aug. 30. The newspaper Aftenposten has received a telegram from Harstad, stating that the wreckage of Amundsen's zeroplane has been

found in the sea off the Lofoten Islands.-Reuter. |

Oslo, Aug. 30. The Admiralty announces that the senler "Hubby," which is still

SILENT VINNA KINGEN FERVİSTEKO ERKENNEN KANALISATSIOONIKA MEDIE

NATIONALIST GAINS IN SHANTUNG.

ON "HALDIS."

OUTRAGES ON BRITISH

STEAMER.

CHINESE TROOPS TAKE CONTROL OF VESSEL.

OFFICERS FIRED AT

GOLF MATCH.

AMERICAN PAIRS WIN ALL FOURSOMES.

| WALKER CUP CONTEST.

Chicago, Aug. 29.

The sixth. Anglo-American. Wal- ker Cup golf contest opened here to-day,

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The contest consists of four eight singles, which will be play foursomes (played to-day), and

Von Elm and Sweetser (U.S.), beat Perkins and Tweddell (Bri- thin), 7 and 6.

COLONY?

POLICE MAKE THREE RAIDS.

THOUSANDS OF HEROIN PILLS SEIZED.

COURT CHARGES.

products but also maintains an

mont and disposal of, thousands of ounces of heroin and morphin in the form of medicinal pills.

Within the last week, the police, revenue in co-operation with

ed to-morrow, all over 36 holes. Startling happenings "recently The British team was confident - It is believed, through a number occurred aboard the s.8. Haldis of victory but it was generally felt of arrests made during the last. whilst at anchor in. Haichow Bay, that they had. little hope of cap-few days, that there is in existence according to Shipping and Enturing the trophy, which Anterien in the Colony a drug "ring" which Chinese Journalists, giving then

pineering (Shanghai), when Chin- has retained ever since he insti- not only manufactures Its own disarmament Accord, emphasised' that there was nothing in the

report of the latest developments Von Waldow" declared that in connexion with Sino-foreign researching for the missing mem-se troops acting as "guards" on lation of the contest in 1921.

the ship practically took charge of. The Americans won all the four-extensive organization for ship. shape of an agreed Anglo-French

bers of the Italia crew and for the vessel and Indulged in consomes, the results being:- policy, no secret clauses and no Stinnes was aware of the projected ations, arrangement with regard to an frauds, but Stinnes has denied the

Dr. Wang declared that the Amundsen, has fruitlessly explored siderable shooting, from which the

officers had narrow escapes. United States Government had alliance or the co-operation of accusation. Anglo-French navles. Nothing of The fraud complained of con-offeinlly requested the opinion of the sort had ever been suggested. sisted of buying German war stock the Nationalist Government as to The Accord was merely the fabroad and registering it in Ber-whether the latter wishes to

Anglo-Frenellin-as original War Loan stock becoma

the solution of the

adherent of divergence of ouinion with regard which had not changed hands No-War Pact. The Nanking to the principles on which the since the 1918 revolution and Foreign Ministry, ho Anid, question of naval disarmament which had consequently been re- was most willing to join in and might be approached, The Accord valorised by the Government, after proper sancilon by the Gov- was simply for the purpose of whereas all stock which has chang-ernment, China will officially an securing a single text as betweened hands sinen 1918 is practically nounes her adherence. A decision two draft Conventions, and it con- worthless.-Renter. sisted of only four or five short but most technical clauses. publication was naturally dolnyed until the American, Italian and Japanese Governments, to which the Accord had been communicat- ed, had had an ornorlunity of con- aidering their replies to the Invita- tion to make observations thereon.

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Lord Cushendun emphasised that unless all the other nations concerned at Geneva were in agreement with the proposed Con- vention it would fail to the ground, but he was most hopeful of arriving at an agreed text, pos- sily with nome amendments.- Reuter.

Disarmament a Slow Task.

London, Aug. 30, Lord Cushendun, who, is repre- senting Britain at the League of Nations, spoke to British press re- presentatives at Goneva to-day on the subject of the Peace Pact;

which he sigried on behalf of Great Britain last Monday, and on its relation to disarmament.

ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE.

HONGKONG EXAMINATION

SUCCESSES.

la expected at a Government meet- ing to-morrow (Friday)..

Continuing, Dr. Wang stated that it is not to be doubted that the foreign Powers will recognise the Nationalist Government as the representative authority of China, Formal announcements are but a matter of time, he added.

Referring to the Treaties, the Foreign Minister asserted that

A cable has been received from negotiations are in progress with 'the Secretary of the Royal several foreigri countries for their Sanitary Institute, London, inti-revision. mating that the recommendatione made by the Hongkong Board of Examiners in the recent examina tions for Sanitary Inspectors and,

Append to Leúgue?

Shanghai, Aug. 31.

in Sanitary Science, held at King's Dr. C. T. Wang, In an interview, College on July 9th, have been ap-declared that owing to the long proved. The pass flat includes: delay in the settlement of the Sanitary Science. James Reid Tainant incident if Japan does not and Thomas Armstrong, both of oon show her, sincerity by open- the Hongkong Government San- ing negotiations with China, the tary Department.

Nationalist Government will put the

Three toportant Towns in

Peninsula Go Over,

CHEFOO STILL HOLDS OUT,

Chefoo, Aug. 31. General Fang Yungchang's troops, under Colonel Liu, at Hwanghaien, Lungkow and Lalchow, have turned over to General Lig Dzi-líu, who re- cently arrived from Pingtu and raised the Nationalist fing at these threg towns,

General Fang is reported to have gone into retirement at. Tengchowtu.

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So far, Chefoo remains in Northern control, but com- munications with Hwanghsien are interrupted.--Reuter,

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case before the League of Queen Victoria Land and then Sanitary Inspectors. Henry Nations and appeal for arbitration, proceeded to Franz Joseph Land George Stevens, George Frost, Wil---Nam Chung Pao. llam Charles Lamprill and Arthur Foster, also of the Sanitary De-

Lord Cushendun, who has re-partment. cently stated that the Pact is the All written examination papers "most impressive declaration ever together with the local Board of made by mankind of its determina- Examiners remarks are forwarded tion to preserve peace," said it to London, for revision, comment would be a mistake for idealists to and approval. claim that now that the Pact was

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It seems that the Haldis, which is a vessel under British registry, had occassion to remain anchored in Haichow Bay from August 8'till August 17 for the purpose of load- ing salt. Immediately the Halis arrived, she was boarded, from a junk, by a party of Chinese sol- diers, to whom, by what authority and means we are not at the mo- ment aware, the vessel's Customs- papers were handed over.

Protection From Pirates, Some of the solders went away fairly soon, but others remained on board, stating that they were here for the purpose of protect ing the ship from the depredations of pirates. Possibly there was something reasonable in the spirit,

as the

Gunn and Mackenzie (U.S.), beat Beck and MacCallum (Bri tain), 7 and 5.

Quimet and Johnstone (U.S.), bant, Torranco and Storey (Bri-officers, have succeeded in locating a number of agencies said to be tnin), 4 and 2.

maintained by the "ring" in the Colony, and it is said that there is evidence of the wide ramifications. of the organization in the fact that the three or four different places raided by the authorities are widely separated from each other,

Jones and Evans (U.S.), beat Hezlet and Pope (Britain), 6 and 3.-Renter's American Service.

WU HAN-MIN GOES TO SHANGHAI.

DEPANTS BY P. & O. LINER THIS MORNING.

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On Wednesday, Criminal Inves-. tigation Department officials, led by Detectivo. Sergeant Whant, visited a floor in Hok Sze Terrace where they seized 2,000 pills of haroin and 6,000 other pills in course of manufacture, in addition to four ounces of the drug in the pure state. At the same time, a The Nationalist "Rightist" poll-man who was employed as a cook if not in the actual net and tlclan, Mr. Wu Han-min, accom- on the premises and who was the consequences of placing troops panted by General Chan Ming-shlu, only inmate found there at the on the ship,

next the Canton military leader toge-time, was arrested and taken to day a

large junk which is ther, with the latter General's pri- the Police Station. believed to be a pirate craft, vate secretary, left för Shanghai

More Pills Found, arrived and, after some manoeuvr- this morning on the P. and Q. 8.8,

The expectation of the pollca ing, hove to to windward of the Kashgar,

There was a large gathering of that this seizure would lead to Haldis, and within easy striking distance in the event of the pirates prominent Canton politicians, in- further developments materialised deciding to attack her during the cluding General Tang Yin-wah, yesterday, when a young Chinens Mr. LI Man-yin, Mr. Li Man-fan was arrested in Russell Street, Additional guards were not (acting Chairman of the Canton He was carrying a large tin box, night. obtainable from the local author Provincial Political Council), Mr. which, on being examined, was itles, so the master of the Haldle Fu Ping-sheung (former Canton found to contain layer upon layor wisely decided to leave his an- Foreign Commissioner), and Mr. of pills of an Identical appearance and Alexandra Land.

chorage and try to obtain more Chau Din-pong (Chairman of the to the ones seized in Hok Sze Wu Pei-fu Supported, Heavy gales and high seas were guards from Tsingtao. However, Canton General Chamber of Com-Terrace.

Police officers engaged in the encountered and lee which formed the agent of the salt merchants, merce) to see the Nationalist

caso have not been able to check Shanghai, Aug. 30.

all over the ship's superstructure, who was on board, himself arrang- leader off for the North.

Special police protection was the number of pills contained On Friday last, Marshal Chang covered the two acroplanes which ed to obtain, locally, sufficient

the box, but It Is estimated to rufi are on the deck and put out of additional guards to protect the offered the party.

to thousands. Chung-chang, the defeated former

pan of Shantung, issued a circu-netion the ship's wireless-Reuter, ship. He did so; and the account lar telegram, in which he declared

of the behaviour of those "guards"

When questioned, the arrested Oslo, Later.

youth said that he was engaged that he is going to support Mar- The Examining Board is compos-hn Wel Pel-fu, to fight against

All enquiries hitherto indicato on the Haldis makes a story which

only as a carrier, and he took thu signed overything was done. Oneed of the lon. Director of Publie the Nationallats.

that the rumours of the finding of is little less than monstrous,

police to a shop in Russell Streut of wreckage

Amundsen's new heaven so works, the Director of Medical did not arrive at

Take Complete Control.

where he was employed as a cook. The telegram explains that it is the

There he pointed out a man, des quickly. Evolution always. meant

Chang Chung-chang's aeroplane are baseless-Reuter.

They appear to have taken

cribed as the proprietor of the slow progress. He did not think and Sanitary Services, the Medical Marsh

Officer of Health, the Colonial

almost complete.control of the

shop, as the individual who" en- because nations had signed the Veterinary Surgeon, Sir Ertan to secure the assistance of

ship, and on the night of August Pact that they would be justified Stuart Taylor, M.D., and the local other leaders of the Northern

trusted him with the pills and the remanants and the Chieftans" of

10, when the second officer went the Mohammedana tribes in Kansa

Into the forecastle to slack away Lo Tung and Lo Suf-hun, who latter was in his turn arrested.

In the shop the police also and other Provinces in the North.

more anchor cable on the master's have been arrested for the alleged orders, one of the "guards" stood murder of two coolies in Wosung found a large quantity of ingre Fengtien Envoy in Nanking.

over him with drawn pistol. Street, were brought before Mr, W.dients which corresponded to the

Schofield at the Kowloon component parts of the pills, Shanghai, Aug. 30.

The "guarda" had taken pos- General Chang Hsuch-lang's!

session of the officers' deck. Magistracy this morning when, on

A Third Raid. personal representative, Mr. Shing

Old residents of the Colony will and on another occasion, when the application of Inspector Fal

of coolies and sollon, a further remand of one week Yot a third: raid was made by. Shih-lien, left hore by rail last night for Nanking. He intends to hear with regret that news has been a lot

Inspector Fallon, in applying the police when they arrested, at stay in the Nationalist capital received by Messrs. Butterfeld and diers (in this case there may was granted. .. for about one week, Interviewing Swire of the death in Vancouver have been a distinction but there

with CASES OF PROSTRATION AND the foremost Nationalist leaders. on Wednesday last, from heart can hardly have been a difference) for the remand, stated that he had different address, a man named the preceding two; the lie will return here before going failure, of Captain Arthur Wosley were behaving in a noisy manner been asked by the Fublic Prosecu-Liang Yuk-che. This

and generally making a nuisance tor to do so, in order that çertain stated as being closely connected arrested, man being charged with The deceased, who was born in of themselves, the chief engineer enquiries, which are now being un-

The defendants will therefore alding and abetting in the manu- 1869, had considerable service with requeated that they quieten down a dertaken might be completed. the China Navigation Co., Ltd., bit. Tho only result was that

a largo quantity has been seized. being engaged on various ships, some of the guards" threatened appear again before his Worship facture of heroin pills, of which

on Friday, September 7,

Revenue Officer Ward, who took from Second Officer to Master, to shoot him.

this case before Mr. R..E. Lind- sell this morning on instructions from 1894 to 1904.

from his superior officers, made a statement regarding heroin pills and bills of lading, Mat

in throwing all their armaments on

the scrapheap. Disarmament was

a much slower and longer, task.

Secretary.

Applications for an examination The same remarks applied to other in October for "Sanitary Inspec- difficult questions with which the tors" have been received from League of Nations, had to deal. Shanghai. People had not to be impatiens.-- British Wireless.

PIECE GOODS EXPORTS.

MANCHESTER REPORTS BIG

INCREASE.

London, Aug. 30.

ANOTHER NEW YORK HEAT WAVE.

SUICIDE.

back to Mukden.

New York, Aug. 30.

A $10,000,000 Loan. The heat wave has regained its

Shanghai, Aug. 30. The exports of plece goods, of

From a Chinese source it is cotton and artificial silk mixed, oppressiveness, and there have for July, totalled 7,420,300 square been numerous cases of prostra-stated that Marshal Chang Chung chang, who is directing his troops yards, of a value of £599,000, tion and several suicides.

remnants against the Nationalists, according to a Manchester mos- Many offices are closed and work has succeeded in floating a foreign

This is an increase of 1,873,800 on the Stock Exchange has been loan of $10,000,000. square yarda, valued at £187,900 particularly trying owing to un-

usual activity on the market. over July 1927,

Parks and open spaces are filled There were Increases in overy world market except British West during the night with families from tenement houses-Reuter's Africa, China and Colombia.

Amerion Service.

sago.

The trade with New Zealand in July was almost equal to the total for the previous months. British Wireless.

THE PEACE PACT.

TWO MORE ADHERENCE

DECISIONS.

STORM FATALITIES.

CASUALTIES IN ITALY AND

CANADA.

Rome, Aug. 80.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN

A. W. DIXON.

FIRST MANAGER OF HOLTS KOWLOON WHARF,'

Dixon.

From 1904 to 1907, he was Agent

The Culminating Point.

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RECENT DOUBLE

MURDER,

ACCUSED MEN AGAIN REMANDED,

HOME FOOTBALL,

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

London, Aug, 30. The following are the results of

matches played to-day:

and Superintendent of the West This sort of thing went on day River British Steamship Company, after day, and the officers and crew whilst he vas Wharf Mandger from of the Haldis had a trying and Marshal Chiang,

the opening of Holt's Wharf at most uncomfortable time. The Kowloon in 1908 until his transfer culminating point was reached, Shanghai, Aug. 80, to Shanghal on the opening of however, on the last day of the Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is still Holt's Wharf at Pootung, where he vessel's stay, when three junks, here. Yesterday afternoon he was Manager until his retirement flying red flags, and containing football

soldiers (or "guards") came along. went out in his motor car with his quite recently. wife on an excursion to Lunghua.

side. On Saturday he is to attend reception at the Nationalist Third Division Headquarers to deliver a speech to the higher officials,

It is believed that he will re- turn to Nanking in three or four

days' time..

Twenty additional soldiers board-

Div. III (South).

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His Worship said that bills of lading implied that these pilla. were imported, whereas the charge that had been preferred against the accused was one of aiding arid abetting the manufacture of the pills in the Colony. Hie Worship' called for facts.

Rovenue Officer Ward said he was only instructed by the Super intendent of Imports and Exports, :- who was unable to attend, to say 2 Bradford C. 2 that the case was connected with The other match in this Divi-Sergeant Whelan's case, and that

The late Captain Dixon had only anded in Vancouver from Shang-

ed the Haldia and completely took Northampton. 2 Luton

0 Newport hat a few days prior to his death,

charge of the vessel. When they Q. P. R. Death of Father Brossard,

arrived, the chief and second on-

Div. III (North). The death took place at the gincers were having tifin, and a European Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, number of soldiers gathered round Carlisle last week of the Rev. Father the table and, behaved In such a Brossard, after some months of ill-a manner that it was imposible for slon, which was due to be played bills of lading were involved.

the two officera to carry on with to-day (New Brighton v Chester- their meal. They went to their re-field) was postponed-Reuter, Father Brossard was 54 years spective rooms, where they were old and had been in Malaya since followed by the military rabble, 1900. He was first in charge of who poked pistols and rifles the Roman Catholic Church at through the port-holes and theaten- Bukit Mertajam and then went to ed to shoot! Seremban. At the time of his Shanghai, Aug, 81.

death he was in charge of the Marshal La Chai-sum is reported Church of the Holy Rosary, Brick-

Dr. Chu Chao-hsin, Vice-Foreign Minister of Nanking, left here dor It is now known that nine were Hangchow yesterday to accompany killed and 40 seriously and 100 Marshal Li Chai-sum and his slightly injured in the severe party of Canton officials back to The Finnish Government has hafistorm at Monza, Lombardy, Shanghai. decided to adhere to the Peace Router. Pact.

Helsingfors, Aug. 80.

Marshal Li Chal-sum,

ness.

MORE RAIN,

Mr. Lindsoll drew the Revenue. Officer's attention to the lack of cohesion between a statement re- garding the bills of lading and the charge on which the accused was brought before the Court. The charge also mentioned another To-day's report of the Royal Ohman who presumably was the The second engineer then st-servatory states that a trough of principal, and his Worship asked to have left Hangchow for Shang-elds. He was a good Chinese tempted to make his way to the low pressure extends from N. Inde if that man had also been hai last evening, accompanied by scholar, speaking several dialects; engine-room, on which a has informed Washington that it four injured in a hurricano in Tal Chi-tau-Nam Chung Pao. and the Roman Catholic Chinese dier put a pistol to the officer's The forecast up till noon to-morrow

The decision is subject to rati-

The Hague, Aug. 30.

fication by the Diet: Reuter.

The Netherlands Government

Hurricane In Canada.

Montreal, Aug. 30.

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Engineer Fired At,

Three persons were killed and

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China to far east of the Philippines, arrested?

is preparing to sign the Peace Pact-Router.

Berthier County-Raster's Ameri- can Service,

is:East winds, moderate; gener ship ally cloudy, some rain.

1. 0. Ward-Yes, your Wor

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will feel his loss deeply.

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