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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1929.

A TREE-CUTTING PIRACY MENACE IN

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PROBLEM.

ACCUSED MAN PRODUCES A PERMIT.

CASE ADJOURNED.

In pointing out that it was dif- ficult to decide in cases in which Chinese, who were accused of eutling trees from Government Plantations, produced permits

SOUTH CHINA.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT

ATTITUDE.

COMMONS DISCUSS CHINA SITUATION.

ILLICIT DRUG RING BROKEN UP.

CLUE IN EGYPT: LEADS TO" DISCOVERY.

HUGE ORGANISATION.

Calro, Dec. 16. The discovery of a large quantity of herein derivative in a consignment of building material from Bale, Switzerland, provided

fram the Forestry Depart NANKING'S RECOVERY. the Egyptian authorities with the

ment, Mr.T. S. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-

London. Dec. 16. ing, remanded a Chinese who was charged with being in possession on The attempted piracy of the the Sai Kung Road of 51 cutties of Douglas 8.8. Haiching was men- pine branches reasonably suspected tioned in the House of Commons of having been cut from the hill-to-day when Mr. Arthur Hender- side.

The defendant produced a permit son, the Foreign, Secretary, was Issued to his village, but it was asked if, he had made any repre- pointed out that the Heance had sentations to the Chinese Gov- expired in June, 1928. He then ernment regarding the increase said that his village had paid the of piracy along the China Coast. Government over $30 for the right;

The Foreign Secretary replied to cut trees in a certain forestry that representations had been re- peatedly made in recent years and the British Minister had instruc- tions to keep the matter before the Chinese Government with a view to their taking effective suppressive

ares this year.

His Worship remarked that it was a diffleult question for him to de- cide. Permits, he pointed out, were not issued individually but to the village, and it was possible that the defendant was under the immensures. pression that the fee had been paid.

His Worship added that the pro- aerution should apply to the Dis- iriet Officer and uquire whether the defendant's village had paid the fee for the current rear or not.

The case was journed till to-morrow.

Fi

However, as far as his informa tion showed, there had been no de terioration in the situation in re cent years.

Safely of Commerce, The problem of securing the safe. accordingly ad-ty of British commerce was one that was constantly kept in view. It would have been noticed, he said, | that In the recent case of the al- tack upon the 8.3. Huiching, twe British warships had been instru- mental in saving the vessel..

HONGKONG FLYING

CLUB.

INAUGURAL MEETING FIXED FOR FRIDAY.

OFFICIAL SUPPORT.

Considerable interest is being shown in the meeting which is to be held in the Chamber of Com- merce room at the City Hall, at 4 p.m. on Friday, for the purpose of forming the Hongkong Flying Club.

H.E. the Governor is to preside, and will speak on aviation in general and on the desirability of establishing a Flying Club in the Colony,

A resolution will subsequently be moved that such a Club be formed, and if it is approved, that certain persons mentioned in the resolution be authorised to make all the necessary arrange- ments:

All interested in the project are eordially invited to be present'at: the meeting, and those who wish to become either Flying or Asso- ciate Members will be asked ni the conclusion of the meeting to hand in their names and ad. disses.

It is interesting to recall that

In answer to further questions,

naval be stated that the British forces available for the protection of British nationals in case of

YANGTSZE STEAMER'S EXPERIENCE.

Two Under..Heavy Fire

Above Ichang.

Coincident with the report, aearing elsewhere, of shots being fired on H.M.S. Seamew on the West River, comes news of a recrudescence of firing on merchant ships on the Yanor- tsze.

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A report received by wire. less this morning states that the 8.8. Iping and the s.s. Iling, of the Yangtze Rapids Com- pany, were under heavy fire 46 miles, above chung on Satur day.

The report makes no men- tion of the damage suffered br the vessels,

ERC2BLACK FEBLUESTA

danger were five cruisers, one air-

craft carrier, eight destroyers, five

in the Colony's Budget for the sloops and eighteen gunboats, coming years sum of $60,000 in

ear marked as an initial grant to the Club, this being part of a sum of $300,000 to be allotted within five years.

NATIONAL ECONOMIC

COMMITTEE.

PREMIER'S LUNCHEON TO

BUSINESS LEADERS.

London, Dec. 16. The Premier gave a luncheon party.to-day to leaders of industry und political economists.

The available milltary forces consisted of three battalions at Hongkong and two at Tientsin, with small detachments at Peking and Weihaiwel

Comparative/Strengths.

The other foreign Powers had an aggregate nával strength in Chinese waters which W#4 - proximately the same, and about eight thousand troops, mainly at Tientsin and Shanghai,"

Mr. J. S. Wardlaw Milne (Con, whether Kidderminster asked

included among the Japan was other Powers mentioned.

Mr. Henderson asked for notice of

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald' Ja that question. taking the opportunity of discus- Mr. Charles Williams (Con.. sing the idea of forming aTorquny) asked if Mr. Henderson National Economic Committee on meant that the whole of the British similar lines to the Committee of naval forces in China were at least Imperial. Defence, and it under- as great as the whole of the remain- stood that conversation at these ing foreign forces put together, gatherings is crystalising to- including Japan. wards the object desired, but no

Mr. Henderson replied: "I think final devision has yet been reach-I was dealing with a comparison of

the military forces."

ed..

Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. J. H. Thomas, Minister-in-Charge of Unemployment, accompanied the Premier-British Wirelesa.

Political Situation.

clue which resulted in the un- earthing of a widespread organi sation for the smuggling of dangerous drugs to Egypt and the Far East from Europe.

The co-operation of the Egyp- tain, Swiss and Italian authorities has led to the breaking up of the gang.

at

Many, arrests have been mader implicating various persons Lugano, Milan, Genoa and Strass- bourg, including a certain Doctor Muller, of Bale, whose books, seized during the recent raid, showed extensive dealings in drugs, including "ester" of morphine..

Ester" of morphine is not, at present, classified in Swiss law as anarcotic, but as a result of the present opisode it is hoped shortly! to treat it as such.

The organisation was found to have its headquarters at Bale: The police raided the premises a of few days ago us the result

information from Cairo, and three arrests were made.. Brugs seized on the premises, a labora toy, were valued at £40,000.-) Rentei.

NATIONAL SAFETY

QUERY.

CONFERENCE MAY REVEAL THE TRUE MARGIN.

PREMIER'S REMARK.

London, Dec. 16. In the House of Commons to- day, Mr. W. H. Ayles (Labourite) asked the Premier whether Bri- thin had commitments to the Lengue of Nations or the British,

which Empire

the prevented House of Commons Itself from "coming to any conclusion it desir

ed regarding disarmament,

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald replied that Article 8 of the Covenant of the League of Nations enjoined on all member States, and

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PHIL SPITALNY AND HIS ORCHESTRA.

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ment, the reduction armaments to the lowest point

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Mr. Ayles asked whether Government believed there was still a margin so far as our own armaments were concerned that we could reduce down to what the Prime Minister had said was the level of national safety, and, if go into the not why, should ve Disarmament Conference?

The Premier replied: "It la because may be that margin cán be discovered only by inter nutional agreement that we are going into that Conference.”.— British Wireless.

AFRICAN HOLIDAY.

CLASH.

NATIVES WOUNDED BY EUROPEANS.

Capetown, Dec. 10. Three natives were wounded, one seriously, at Potchefstroom. when Europeans were alleged to have fired revolvers at natives during a Communist meeting in connexion with Dingaan's Day.

Dingaan's Day celebrations were Asked regarding the general poli-otherwise pesceful. Demonstrators tical situation in China arising from in Capetown burned effigies of Gen- the new rebellion against Marshal eral Smuts and Mrs. Hertzog,- Chiang Kai-shek's regime, the Reuter. Foreign Secretary anid that the Dingaan's Day is an annual holi- THE FRENCH DEBT TO situation at Nanking and Shanghai day, being the anniversary of the appeared to be quiet, except for defent of the powerful native chief, AMERICA.

minor trouble along the Shanghai- Dingaan, by the Boers in 1888. Nanking Railway,

SECURES APPROVAL OF THE U.S. SENATE,

Washington, Dec. 16. The Senate, by 63 votes to 31, ratified the French War Debt set-

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"Cantonese Victory.

No serious fighting had taken he had no official Information in con- place on the Pukow front, and frmation. troops were being sent back to Han- kow, on which Tang Seng-chi had threatened to converge, ·,

Hankow was not disturbed at the moment, and Tsinanfu, Poking, Tientsin, Chinklang and Manchuria all seemed normal.

In answer to further questions, 1 Mr. Henderson said as far as his tipment, which provides for the

information went, the foreca op payment of G.$4,026,000,000 over

posed to the Nanking Government in China had been decisively de- a period of sixty years.

The Bill which will now go to

fcated near Canton. Chang Fat Mr. Peter MacDonald (Cop., Isle kwei's Ironsides had been defeated White House, is the last of the of Wight) asked if the rising was to the north of Canton and the war debt settlements arranged by due to Soviet propaganda.

Kwangel army on the West River the Debt Commission to be ap

Mr. Henderson said he had no had also boen repulsed. proved.

information. According to a Press The anti-Nanking forces had France ratified the agreement report a Sino-Soviet agreement had made no further progress on any last July. Reuter's American heen reached locally on the fm of the other main lines of attack- Service.

mediate issues in Manchuria, but Reuter and British Wireless,

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