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HOLD-UP IN GENEVA CONFERENCE.

FINAL ATTEMPT TO PLACATE EMPLOYERS.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1929.

EMPRESS LINER RE-FLOATED.

BEING TOWED TO DRY DOCK AT ESQUIMALT.

COMPROMISE PLAN." THE CANADA'S MISHAP.

Geneva, Oct. 15.

The French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish employers delegates at the Maritime Conference of the In- ternational Labour Offee have been instructed by their Governments to hold firm and not to retire from the Conference with the employers of other nationalitica,

Negotiations are still proceeding between the employers and M. A bert Thomus, the Director of the ILO, an the text of a compromise reelution which has bee.. traiten for possible submiss onto the Con- ference.

The Government delegates have pressed objective to any reco ence in this resolution to past dif- culties, and have notified the em- ployers that the negotiations must be concluded to-day.

Meanwhile, four of the Confer ence Committees are working in the absence of the employers' delegates.

Later.

The Government delegates at the Maritimes Onference have pro- posed the formation of a Committee or Conciliation, consisting i mine member three from each group,«t»? solve the, dieties arising from the attitude of the ship-owners.

This is believed to be the final attempt to reach a settlement

Beater.

CHENGCHOW FALL IMMINENT?

Houtinged, from Page 15). Chiang Kai-shek aggvities t propaganda is prevalent in Shansi Province.

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COOLIE EXECUTED

AT DAWN,

FINAL SCENE IN CROSS STREET MURDER.

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CORONER'S INQUIRY.

Victoria, B.C., Oct. 15. Yeung Kwal-tin, a cocile con- The Empress of Canada, which demired to death for the mur. ran on the rocks at Homer's Bay, der of Young Lekhong at Cross in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Street, Wanchai, on July 25, was a heavy fog on Monday, was re-executed at Victoria Cuol at dawn floated this afternoon and is now this morning. being towed to the Esquimalt dry The customary enquiry was held dock,

Inter in the day by the Coroner The Empress of Canada was te.

(Mr. E..W. 'Hamilton), when Dr. cently re-engined and renovated at Clyde and was returning to Vancou-A. Cannon, Medical Officer attach ver to resume her Pacifle cruises. She cd to the Gaol, who was present at has grounded within fifty feet of the the execution, said the hanging was shore. Fortunately the sea was calm carried out without any hitch and and the few passengers aboard" were completed within a matter of a few transferred without a hitch.

econds. He considered that un- consciousness was instantaneous with the dislocation and fracture by hanging of the neck.

The damage is not believed to be extensive."

In the meanwhile the Empress of France will remain on the Pacific and will take aboard the service 1,100 passengers awaiting to sail on the Empress of Canada this week.

No Shock Fell

After Chief Wurder MuLeod had produced the prison records as well! as the Governor's warrant for the execution, the jury returned n verdiet in accordance with the medi..

Passengers, interviewed, said the val evidence. ashock when the vessel struck the

It will be recalled that the de- rocks on Sunday morning WAS 80

clared was charged with murdering, light that nobody was aware sheby stubbing, nother coolie at Cross was aground. It was "the quietest Sirect, the affair egcurring near t shipwreck that could possibly hap-| still in Cross Street where the vic- pen."-Reuter's American Service.

tim was taking his evening meal.

Evidence on identification Wild extensively reviewed at the sub- quent trial before the Chief Justice at the last Criminal Ses- siens, the accused being finally con- victed, after a strong ples of pro- vocation had been advanced by his condembet te counsel, and was death.

Some of the Passengers.

London, Oct. 16, Twelve passengers on the Empress of Canada who booked for Vancouver inclule Lady Frederick White and Mr. Percy H. McKay, of Shanghai.

The re-engining and renovating of the vessel on the Clyde cost £800,000 The ship is insured for 窪 million sterling, and 25 guiness per cent was quoted at Lloyd's yesterday in this connexion.

Official Statement.

state A Canadian Pacific official ment on the strandling of the Empress of Canada says:

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"The vestel was proceeding to He asserted, ingeversti jus- Victoria, British Columbia, with pite the efforts of Kuam nun licensed pilot on the bridge, and Divisional Gonmando, the Ko grounded at noon on Oct, 13 in dense

near

Albert Hend, when the speed mintang Department at Taayaaf

was about four knots, Tugs were is distinctly sympathetic to the immediately sent, and her ninety-six and Nanking regime and the Kumin-passengers aboard left the ship

hotel at Victoria, taly heaters are war d spent the night in a Shans hovernment : wash he going to Vancouver in the morning.

The work of lightening the ship hands ei the present tüm ned to demand that all Komuron preparatory to removal to drydock officers, furluding Marshal Fug

was started immediately." Yu-hsiang should leave Shums with their troops.

The sentence was carried out fat 5 o'clock this morning; the 'condemned manaqpording to in eye-witness of the execution, going In the scaffold with that sangfraid which he had displayed throughout' the period of the trial.

DIPHTHERIA NOW ON

INCREASE.

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speaking. Also there was more disense overcrowding, and the could be caught by clase contact. The statement emphasises that In the summer, people spent more there will be no delay and no lack of of their time in the open air and comfort for the passengers of the were therefore less likely to cutch] «Empress of Canada to the Orient, it.

inasmuch as the Empress of Franes, which will replace her and snil front Vancouver for Yokohama on October 17, is fast and luxuriously equipped.

Shansi Pro-Feng. Marshu. You la quoted e3 liiv- ing told the Nanking rape eta tive that, the many reasons why-Reuter. the Kuominéhun troops have, Te- volted cannot be explained at the moment. The Kaominchun have good reason for tubing am-tie measures.

It is notable that the newspapers in the jurisdictions of Marshal Yen figi-shan are giving much pro- minence to the proclamations of the Kuominchun Divisional com mandiers attacking Chiang Kai shck, The tone of the leaders of these newspapers is distinctly pro Fong.

Chang Hsueh-liang Neutral.

Peking, Oct. 16.

Empress of France to Continue.

Ne Epidemic Expected.

Dr. Fawcett went on to say that he did not anticipate anything like un'epidemic, but if matters became serious. arrangements would be made with the Government Bac- Due to the grounding of the Em-teriologist for a supply, of anti- press of Canada off Victoria the local toxin in order that innoculation office of the "Canadian Pacific have could be carried out. He did not been informed that the Empress of France will take the aniling of the think the climatic conditions in Empress of Canada leaving Vancou- Hongkong were favourable to a ver. October 17th, for the Orient. big outbreak. If it did become Passengers who have been booked seribus, however, steps, would he from Vancouver to the Orient will taken to trace it. Dr.Fawcett ad- therefore be carried by, the Empress ded he did not think that there had of France.

ever been a real epidemic in Hong- kong.

The Empress of France will take the Empress of Canada vayage East- war-November 13th-und by which

ther it is hoped that the Empress of anal will be able to resume her

place in the Trans-Pacific schedule.

The vernacular papers print' .; Mukden despatches stating that

in an interview, Chang Hsueh- RUBBER AND MINING

Hang said that on reading the

Kuominchyn circular telegram "he

found some reasonable points in

it."

SHARES.

He went on: The Central LATEST QUOTATIONS AND

Government was not to be a Government by, one man, and if there has been maladministration in the Government those respon. sible should be impeached by the censors of the yuan."

He hoped the present trouble would be settled amicably, but 15 his advice in this direction was

“DIVIDENDS,

Messrs. Carroll Bros have been advised of the following quotations and dividends on rubber and mining

shares:

Allenbys Ayer Panas not observed, and fighting ensued, Genealys he would maintain à neutral at- Jimales titudo.-Beuter.

Gen. Họ Cheng-chun in Peking.

Peking, Oct. 15.

Kedaha

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Quotations.

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2.40 Sa

1.80

3.80.

2.30 2.35

Dividends.

Taiping Thabowleik.!..

tu Yam Sungel Bagans Ayer Moleks

General Ho Cheng-chun re- Amalgamated Malays turned this morning from Tai- Ayer Hitam Rubber yuanfu. He refused interview, Batu Lintang but his spokesman declared that Bukit K. B. General Yen Isi-shan would Kuala Sidims accept orders from the Centra Government and that the Shansi troops 'will never fight against Nanking. It is understood that General Ho Chong-chun is im- mediately proceeding to Nanking "to report and is afterwards pro-

ceeding to Hankow as Command-i gr-in-Chlef of · the Government armies in Hupch.----Reuter,

Rebels Sald to Have Fled.

Canton, Oct. 15. "

Our informant emphasised that particular care should be taken with children, with whom it took a very rapid, course, but if treated early it could nearly always be practical- ly cured.

NO WATER FOR DUCKS.

MARKET STALLHOLDER IN

TROUBLE.

The holder of two stalls at the was summoned Hunghom Market before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith utj

this the Kowloon Magistracy morning, at the instance of Mr. P. J. O'Brien, Inspector of the S.P.C.A.. for failing to provide drinking water for two crates of decks.

The defendant replied that in had given the ducky"water, and showed M. O'Brien the containers which were still wet, althougii. there was actually no water

10% them.

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Mr. O'Brien informed his Wor- 34 ship that there were several wet 26eptacles, but they were patsido 74% the rates,

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Price of raw rubber

10d.

NO PERMIT.

HOUSES OCCUPIED WITHOUT

AUTHORITY.

I Worship pointed out to the defendant that it was no good to the ducks if the water was left outalde the crates.

The defendant was fined $8 en each charge..

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LIFE BANISHEE RETURNS.

MAN WHO PERSISTS IN ' COMING BACK..

A Chinese who had five times re-

A cable report from the branch headquarters of the 8th. Army Representing the owners of two Route at Wuchow, states that Yu new houses in Austin Road, a Choh-pak, the ex-Chairman of Chinese pleaded guilty before Mr. turned from banishment, after be Kwangai, and General Li Ming-T. S. Whyte Smith, at the Kowlooning originally sentenced in 1022 to shui have fled, their destination Magistracy this morning, to char- ten years, deportation, appeared bo- being unknown.

ges of allowing the premises to before Mr. EW. Hamilton at the Cen- General Chan Ming-shu gives occupied without a permit from the tral Magistracy this morning on a as his opinion that the revolt of Building Authority

similar charge, when he was sen- Yu Choh-pak and Chung Fat-kwal Mr. A: F. Reynolds, of the P.W.D. tenced to six months and 24 strokes. It was stated that the man had will be put down at an early date. in reply to his Worship, intimated

At present, over half of the re- that if houses were occupied before received sentences varying between volted forces have been account-a permit was obtained latrines six and twelve months and eighteen el for, while General Ho Chion is wore erected and these rendered and twonty strokes with the birch. hot on the heels of Chang Fat the premises unsanitary.

The last time he was banished was Kwal in Hunan-Canton News The defendant was and $15 on on the 10th November, 1928, when Agency.

he was sent away for life. each charge..

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