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MALI,TA 正拜禮 號五月四英港香 FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929.
日六廿月二 UTTER COLLAPSE A SHANGHAI FIRM PARIS REPARATION THE CINEMA IN THE EARL OF BALFOUR
OF WUHAN.
EXONERATED.
HANKOW IN NANKING| HANDS TO-DAY.
GENERAL TURNS TRAITOR TO LET CHIANG THROUGH
ACCOUNTANTS EXPLAIN ACTION AS LIQUIDATORS,
ECHO OF C.O.C. AFFAIR.
Shanghai, Apr. 6. Messrs. Soth, Mancell and Mc- Ciuro, the accountants, have been exonerated by the Provisional
CONFERENCE. -
NO SIGN OF BREAK IN DEADLOCK.
THE "FLOOR" & "CEILING" OF POWERS' DEMANDS.
HOPEFUL SITUATION. Court respecting the step which DEVIL AND DEEP SEA!
the firm took in connexion with the liquidation of the C.0.C.
The action which the aeroun-
Hankow, Apr. 6. The complete collapse of the Wuhan defence-lines when such tanta took caused their dismissal remarkably modern preparations in the capacity of joint liquida. had been so carefully worked out tors, due to their failure to comply was due to the defection General Li Ming-shiu, the Com-Tic. 16,000 in the liquidators of with the Court's order to deposit mander of the 7th Wuhan Divi- bank account. sion, who turned traitor at vital period,
This led to Mr. Melahardt,-the American Deputy, characterising
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Paris, Apr. 4.
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MEXICAN BANDIT OUTRAGE.
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HEAVY RANSOM PAID.
Mexico City, Apr. 4. After almost exactly a month in the hands of the Mexican bandita who raided the premises of the San Nicholas Mining and Milling Com- pany at Vocas in the State of
Durango, Mr. J. W. Reid and Mr. Henry Hanson have been released. Mr. J. W. Roid is a Britisher, while Mr. Hanson fa an American. Mr. Hanson was the resident man- ager of the Company.
AMERICAN SOCIAL SQUABBLE.
PIQUANT PROBLEM IN WASHINGTON.
SEATING POSITION OF SISTER OF VICE-PRESIDENT.·
CATTY WOMEN AT PLAY
Official Washington and Wash- Ington society are in a stato of great agitation at the present time
over a question of social pre A strong protest, regarding the cedence, in which the hostess of
were sent to pursue the bandits. kidnapping of Mr. Reid was for- Vice-President Curtis and her post- by the British Minister, and troops dispute. warded to the Mexican Government tion form the centre of a piquant
When it was discovered that the newspaper that a clique of wo
It is alleged by a New York foreign prisoners were in no Im- men are behind the almost un negotiations had bech opened, the most illuminating example of de
"To examine the arrangements extating for the supply and LABOUR TRIBUTE. censorship of cinematograph films for pubile exhibition in the
London, Apr. 4. Colonies, Protectorates and Man-
The Earl of Balfour, it is under to the deadlock was revealed dated Territories, and to consider stood, will retire from public life when the Committee of Experts in what way these arrangements when Parliament is dissolved next en Repurations re-met to-day after reference to
could be improved, with special month, memoranda which have been sub of developing the use of the cine President, of the Council and has the Easter holiday, though two
following points: Firstly, the desirability he has held the office of Lord During the present Parliament, mitted to the Conference, were j discussed at considerable length. tograph as an instrument of therefore been a member of the
education in the widest sense; Cabinet. The first Memorandum
His decision to retire economic in his 81st year, and the need for safeguarding his health.
purauit was withdim. Lord Balfour was Premier from The bandits demanded the pay- 1902 to 1905. He was Forelynment of Pesos.24,000 for the release Secretary in Mr. Lloyd George's of the men, but it is not known | Coalition Government from 1917 to what aum was paid. The negotia-
1919.
tions were carried out between the the bandits. San Nicholas Mining Company and
repre-
He had control of an important Mesara, Seth, Mancell and Ments a composite Allied sugges-and, secondly, the desirability, on is dictated by his age, he being medinte danger and that ransom precedented affair; which is n
Clure's action as "dishonesty, en- bezzlement and contempt."
Counsel for the firm of recoun-
sector in the Hwagpel aren where It was regarded as almost im- possible that the Nanking army could break through. He turned
The second is a personol sug- over to Nanking yesterday mornauts tendered an apology and ex-gostion by the American Chair- ing and allowed the Government plained that their netion in ear-man of the Committee, Mr. Owen forces to march through without marking their fees was based on Young, covering the same ground
misconception opposition,
of their legal but from an impartial and presi-
dential angle.
tion, enumerating the minimum political as well as demands of the different creditor countries.
The defence lines naturally collapsed on all frents, and the Wuhan troops are retiring in con-
fusion.
· Disorganised Retreat.
General Yeh Chi la reported to have declared his neutrality! General Hu Tsung-tu, who ganised the splendid defensive: works, has resigned and dis- appeared.
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or.
The Wuhan forces are now fall- Ing back on Hankow in complete
rights,
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The explanation was accepted. Our Own Correspondent,
· RECORDS BROKEN IN GAMBLE.
HUGE SUCCESS OF STOCK EXCHANGE SWEEP,
London, Apr. 4.
disorganisation, while pante pro- A MILLION STERLING? vails in the Wuhan cities. Thou- sands of Chinese givilians with their baggage are pouring into the former British Concession area, which has been barricaded to prevent an influx by the defeat
ed soldiery..
No Losting,
The two suggestions are de- scribed as the "ceiling" and the "Hoor" and it is apparently hoped that the Germans will build a plat- form between the two, though up to the present they are taking no step in this direction.-Reuter,
Lending Figures.
A keen observer has sent us the following notes on the Reparations Conference from Paris-
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Twenty-eight delegates of the seven Powers taking part in the Paris Conference on Reparations represent enormous international capital in Intelligence and finan- All records have been broken in cial power. A strange sensation the rush to secure tickets for the felt when one sees these bearers Stock Exchange Derby Sweep of famous names seated at the which is officially known as the horse-shoe table in the now his "Stock Exchange Mutual Subscriptorically famous Hotel George V tion Fund."
and remembers to what an extent
que half a million tickets at £1lopment of the world is dependent It was decided originally to the political and economic deve- each, but this issue was so rupidly on the result disposed of that a further batch of fons.
of their delibera-] half a million was issued to-day.
A Civilian Peace Preservation Committee has been formed and martial law has been declared There has been no looting up to the present and adequate preenu-
It is only natural that even in Remarkable scenes were witncas this gathering of Experts a small tions have been taken by the Chinese authorities for the protec-ed this morning when the office in group of men should stand out in
tion of foreigners in the three Special Administrative Districts,
Later. Everything is in a state of complete confusion in Hankow, though it was stated last night that the offeers of the Wuhan
troops have been able to keep the troops in control.
Military omcials have practical ly all disappeared, but Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops are said to be following close on the heels of the retreating armies.
Safe For Foreigners.
It is hoped, therefore, that the Wulian forces will avoid Hankow and proceed direct to Iunan.
"I think it is quite safe for foreigners" says Reuter's Hankow correspondent cabling at 8.20 p.m. last night. The Chinese authori- ties are doing their utmost to arrange for the protection of foreigners and It is not considered likely that disturbances will break out in the concession area.
Armies Avold City.
Later.
The situation- ja decidedly more hopeful. It is learned that the
retreating army is now circuiting Hankow and is making for Hunan. They will not, therefore, enter the city.
In the course of the day, no less than £150,000 worth of the new tickets were sold.
seated.
PROVISIONAL COURT TROUBLE.
Deputy Suspends a Sentenco in Murder Trial,
JUDGES OBDURATE.
Shanghai, Apr. 5. Another dispute between Judges and a Deputy occurred in the Provisional Court to- day, at the trial of the men accused of the murder of M. Bievez, the Belgian factory. pay maator,
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Mr. Hasegawa vehemently exclaimed against the treat- ment of the case by the Judges, but his successiva protests had as much 'effect on them as water on a duck's back.
At the close, Mr. Hasegawa expressed, disagreement with the Judges' vérdfet and order- ed sentence to be suspended pending a re-trial inasmuch as extraterritorial rights were involved. Our Own Corres- pondent.
man
of
The outstanding political ser- vices of his later years have been his work at the Washington Naval Conference and what is known as the "Balfour Note" on Allied War Debts-British Wirċiess.
Labour Leader's Tribute..
A fine tribute to Lord Balfour, as a man and a statesman, was paid by Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald,
Reid and Hanson were captured on March 3rd-Reuter's American Service.
BRITAIN SEEKING AIR RECORDS.
Ulie Labour leader, on the occa FOUR
sion of the Earl's 80th birthday last year. This took the form of l a special article in the Observer, from which we take the following extracts:
In position, as well as in years, Lord Balfour is an Elder States man. The words do not imply
mocracy I
The full story is told in Reuter cables received from Washington this morning, explaining how the "squabble" came about,
Hostess Nomed.
Vice-President Curtis, who is a bachelor, gave the name of his sister Mra, Dolly Gano na his hostess when he assumed his, office last month.
In this capacity both Mrs. Gann and her husband, Edward Everett Gann, are authorised to receive in- vitation to social affairs and DIFFÉRENT RECORDS TO Curtis is included.
Vice-President functions whon
BE ATTACKED.
ALTITUDE ATTEMPT.
London, Apr. 4.
the shelf, but affective activity--- In aviation circles it Is stated somewhat detached, perhaps, and that It is hoped to secure for Great acted on that part of the stage Britain four world records during screened from the galleries by the the present year. wings-the actions of ons who
prompts and counsels the players as they come and go, and who but occasionally; and in special scenes, strolls on himself to take Д paternal part,
At the homes of Washington's socially-elect; however, Mr, and Mra. Gann have found themselvon. separated by a very long distance, the Vice-President naturally being at the top table, while the Ganns have found themselves, sented at a
table below the foreign diplomata and their wives,
The question of priority has been brought up very strongly, but it They are the duration and non-appears that the position in which the Gans find themselves is in stop records which, the Fairey-accord with the ruling of Mr. Frank Nupler monoplane is expected to B. Kellogg when he was Secretary make by Flying from Cranwell
of State. aerodrome Lincolnshire to Durban In South Africa a distance of 6,000 | - miles; the speed record, which will
Plans are
Wants Ruling Upset.
Mauritius; Sir Charles O'Brien, animals; when cultivated, they two thousand feet.
they are wonderfully forceful ing at least eight miles or forty-attitude taken up by Washington
In July 26, 1848, he was born be attacked immediately after the Vice-President Curtis, It is the City dealing with the Fund was relief who can be described as the
at Whittingchame, in the county race for the Schneider trophy; and learned, has appealed to the new opened. Outside there was a long real leaders of the Conference.
of Haddington, the heir to one of the altitude record.
Secretary of State, Mr. H. L. Stim- those small praportiss so common queue of applicanta, consisting of
The last-named is regarded as son, to reverse the ruling of Mr. members of the Stock Exclinnge and A short time spent in the closely grounds,
in Scotland, the lairds of which the most fascinating of the four Kellogg encouraging the their clerits, and they surged into Kuarded Conference Room is exhibition of British films."
aeem to have been dragged most records.
It is also learned from a source the building when was opened at sufficient to permit of recognizing Captain W. Brass, M.P., will be reluctantly out of the Middle
now being made to in close touch with Mr. Kellogg that nine o'clock.
where, the most active person-the Chairman of the Committee, Ages, and to this day retain as beat the present figure of 30,000 it is not so much an American alities in this assemblage of inter-and other members will include much of their spirit as can aur feet. It is hoped to evolve an custom as an international custom. national historical importance are Sir Hesketh Bell, late Governor of Vive in modern life. When raw, all-metal aeroplane capable of climb- It la pointed out in defance of the
Mr. Owen Young.
soclety that the Prince of Wales of Barbadoca;
when in Washington was placed at Major U. P. Ruxton, Inte Lieuten show what was best in the mind
The selected pilot will undergo tablo below the British The Chairman, Mr. Owen Young.ant Governor of the Southern Pro- and outlook of the eighteenth has his seat in the middle of the vinces of Nigeria. Mr. Creighton, classics, take
contury.
Ho will wear Ambassador because the Ambas They still rund the special training. horac-shoe table. His slight ele-of the Empire Mafketing Board;
2171 interest in electrically warmed clothing_and |sador - officially represented King ant figure is well known and he Mr. Beatty, late of the Malayan life, local history, and are charac paratus which he will himself sa
ngriculture, forestry, open-air will be provided with oxygen ap George. presides over the negotiations Civil Service; and representatives with impartial suavity and abso- of the Colonial Ofice, the Board late objectivity. It would have of Trade, and the Federation of been impossible to find a better British Industries. Reuter and
as British Wireless of
amount of the authorised issue will have been taken up by the time the Fund closes.
It is anticipated that the full
Anniientions for tickets have been received from every part of the world, the Stock Exchange Sweep now being a strong rival to the Calutba. Sweep in popularity.
It is probable that instead of one huge first prize, there will be a larger number of substantial prizes than before-Reuter.
"I'M ALONE" SINKING
INCIDENT.
FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS BY CANADA.
Ottawa, Apr. 4.
position
Jia chairman, middleman In the affairs Europe is of more than merely symbolie importance; it represents
the new balance of power in the world. Young's work, can best be described by saying that he makes the power to adjust the balance felt, with the greatest tact and delicacy when too impulsiva ex- pression is given at the conference table to inevitable and profound differences of opinion.
late
Governor
ASSEMBLY LEADER OVERRULED.
DISCUSSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY BILL
New, Delhi, Apr. 4.
tera,
Entry Into Parliament,
able to control,-British Wireless.
الم
In this case, the parental Scot PRINCE'S TRIBUTE TO tish laird had married the MERCHANTMEN. favourite sister of Lord Sulfa- bury's youth, and in due course the Cecil influence, provided a well-made road into the House of Commons for the son. He then twenty-six. His uncle was at the Foreign Offee, and he
Was
Women Responsible. According to the New York World, a Bmall but powerful feminine clique in Washington society is responsible for the at-. tempted proscription of Mrs. Gann. Vice-President Charles Curtis is
a .most Interesting personality, THE FREQUENT HAZARD OF Born at North Topeka, he is, on his mother's aide, of Red Indian de- DEATH,
scont. His great-grandfather was. Chief of the Osage Tribe, and his grandfather Chief of the Kaws.
bitter end.
London, Apr. 4.
Left an orphan at the age of three, he passed his boyhood with his mother's people in the reserva. tion of the Kaw Indians, receiving his early education there. For a time, he was a fockøy.
Later In life, he began journalistic work and studied for the Bar, to which he was called in
the Senate, in which he has sat ever since except for a break from 1913 to 1915, becoming the Ile- publican leader....
found the doors of that aanctum The Prince of Wales in his at once open to him. Thus, at an capacity as Master of the Mer- age when so many of his political chant Navy and Fishing Fleets, has contemporaries were struggling written a foreword to the final Next to Young sits Mr. Florpont
The Hon. Mr. James Crerar, who to live in a hard and Inhospitable volume of Sir Archibald Hurd's
"The Merchant Navy." At the opening session of the Morgan, the international banker. is officiating as Home Member of world, he was handed up to A
"where every prospect The Prince paya a magnificent Canadian Parliament after the Broad and massively bufft his the Viceroy's Executive Council, point Easter holidays, the Premier, Mr. orderly features always wear a announced in the Assembly to-day pleases." He stepped into office tribute to the part played by the Mackenzie King stated in reply to friendly and conciliatory expres- that the Government view of the as he stepped into an estate. It mercantile marine during the war Mr. Bennett, the Conservative slon. He does not speak mich but rules was that the President of was a family affair. For that no in facing the frequent hazard of 1801. In 1907, he was elected to It is understood that the Nanking tensive correspondence between mark the importance of the Con-empowered to disallow discussion He justified his fortune.
leader, that there had been ex his presence is, along sufficient to the Assembly, Mr. Patel, was not one has any grudge against him. death undaunted in spirit to the forces will take over Hankow peace Washington and Ottawa in the ference,
of the Public Safety Bill while the fully to-day, The excitement has past week with regard to the "I'm
Meerut trials were in progress. grently subsided and quiet now pre-Alone" sinking affair,
Mr. Patel ruted accordingly Valis.
The Canadian Government was Marshal. Chiang Kai-shek in ex-making formal representations Conference, if the expression be April 2nd. Reuter,
The greatest surprise of the when the Bill was re-introduced on "pected in Hankow-to-day.-Router. | with regard to the
permitted, la Dr. Schacht, the [ Reuter.. Hu Taung-tu Bolts,
President of the German' Refchs-
Latest Naval wireless messages state that about 1,500 Chinese troops were assembled at Pukow on Thursday morning and later em-
F
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affair.--
U.S. MARINE CORPS.
Germany's Delegate,
ARED WITH COLD ON ATLANTIC. LINER.
bank. A mun of the widest know MR, KELLOGG UNWELL. ledge with a conspicuous talent for negotiation, he handles Gor many's case, which he is making a case of international economy, With apposite arguments and in a spirit which is always lively and often amiably ironical he demonstrates
barked in the Chinese transports GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER'S with the greatest skill.
Chi Tung and. s.s. Klang. Teen.
From Hankow it is reported that
a noction at least of the Wuhan
armies has gone over to Nanking. Number of Chinse junks and tuga
APPOINTMENT,
Washington. Apr. 4:
1
He was a man of class-the He concludes "Hind it boen Scottish laird tempered at Eton, otherwise, thin country of ours showing the attractive manners of must have perished."Reuter;" the freemasonry of the ruling families, and withal possessed of
an ingenious mind, fruitful in JAPAN EVACUATING resources. He has outlived most of
the contemporaries who so know
him, and now appears as one of vast experience in handling the affairs of State, and who is over ready to stop into breaches when: the needs of the country call upos him.
Great Accomplishments,
SHANTUNG,
WAR OFFICE INTENTIONS ·
INDICATED.
- Tokyo, Apr. 8.
At the Republican National Con- vention last year, he recalvód: 64 votes for the Presidential nomina- tion. He then said that: ho would
refuse to put up for the Vice-Pre- sidency, but the Convention wa practically unanimous.
NOTED U.S. INVALID.
London, Apr. 4.
COLONELS HOUSE, MAKING It is learned reliably that When the "Ile de France"
"GOOD PROGRESS, General Smedley Butter, com- problem even to those opposed to with Mr. and Mrs, Frank Bto the man in the street of all who trating at Tsingtao on the 18th of Colonel House, former adviser
the Intricacy of the reparations arrived' at Plymouth this morning
He is, perhaps, the least familiar Japanese troops now stationed at Teinanfo will commence concen.
New York, Agr. 4. loaded with atores and officers manding the United States his views. Dr. Schacht constantly Kellogg on board, it was learned have been at the hand of national river bear out the rumours et a pointed to the command of the ference that it is not a question retired from the position of as a figure, but as a personality. for Japan round about April 24th, for Internal Grouble, is progrese which have been seen going up the Marines. In China, has been ap- brings to the notice of the con- that Mr. Kellogg, who has just affairs in our time--not so much the present month. of the late President Wilson, whe The first detachment will leave was operated upon a few days ago general retreat.
Marine Corps base at Quanticova, of debtor and creditors but a vast Secretary of State, was in bed The common being knows, that he (Continued on Page 12).
Reuter's American Service, 2-
and the remainder will be evacuating satisfactorily Router's Ameri (Continued on-Apps &) suffering from a cold Reuter. (Continuand on Edge 8.)
ed by the middle of Hay-Router, our Service ESETEST
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