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AMERICAN VIEWS ON CHINA.

“EGYPT" DISASTER TRADE UNIONS AND NANKING TO TAKE

RECALLED.

SALVAGE SHIP FINDS

LINER WRECK. ・

HOPES OF RECOVERING GOLD

WORTH £1,600,000.

TARIFFS.

OPEN MIND ON FREE TRADE QUESTION.

T

SOCIALISM ISSUE.

London, Sept. 1. Mr. John Beard, in his presi. dential speech at the sixty-second annual Trade Union Congress at

OFFENSIVE.

ARMY OF 400,000 MEN MASSING.

ONE OF THE BIGGEST DRIVES OF THE WAR.

VEHICULAR FERRY

SCHEME,

COUNCIL TO BE ASKED TO

VOTE $1,300,000.

FOR THE TWO PIERS.

The public will be interested to learn that a start is to be made with the vehicular ferry scheme, for at Thursday'a meeting of the

DECK BEING PIERCED. Nottingham, said to make a fetish STARTS ON FRIDAY.Legislative Council approval will be

Paris, Sept. 1. The Italian salvage ship Ar- tiglio claims to have located the wreck of the liner Egypt which foundered in the Channel in 1922. The salvage ship states that the work of piercing the deck has been started and hopes, as the sea is calm, soon to reach the strongroom in which there are gold ingots valued at £1,600,- 000.--Router.

of a hundred per cent. free trade was as foolish and as impossible as to declare that, tariffs were a cure for all industrial ills.

Referring to the possibility of the organisation of the Empire as an economic unit, he the matter should be ex- plored in consulatation with the Dominions.

sald

British

sought for the expenditure of a sum of $1,300,000 for the construc- tion of the necessary piers on each side of the harbour.

CAPTAIN DOLLAR'S

OPINIONS.

SILVER STABILISATION NO REAL HELP.

COMMITTEE INQUIRY.

San Francisco, Aug. 28.

LOCAL BRANCH,

Poddar Bldg.

SPURS GET EIGHT CLASH ON INDIAN

MORE · GOALS.

BURNLEY GO DOWN WORSE

THAN READING.

LEAGUE RESULTS.

Following the opening of the League football season on Satur- day matches were played in all the divisions yesterday, the feature being the high scoring of Totten-

BORDER.

BRITISH LOSSES NOW REVEALED.

NINE MEN KILLED AND TEN WOUNDED.

ham Hotspur. On Saturday they HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT,

defeated Rending by seven goals

to one and yesterday trounced

London, Sept. 1:

Nanking, Sept. 2. It is reliably learned that the Government troops will start on Friday general offensives on the Kin-Han and Lung-Hai fronts. Council on the following motions Heavy troop concentration is go-by the Hon, Colonial Secretary;

(a) That this Council, approves ing on at present all along the

the construction of Piers at Lung-Hai front, to which the

Jubilee Strect and Jordan Government's crack Divisions'

Road in connexion with the are being rushed from Tsinanfu.

institution of a Ferry ser- vice which will include the year. transport of vehicles at an Capt. Dollar compared the estimated total cost of $1.-figures with various correspond-Northern Section of the Third

ing periods by way of substan- | Division. tiating his point.

Senator Key Pittman's com- Burnley, hy eight goals to one. The extraordinary circum- mittee of investigation into the In the same division the Wolves stances attending the recent China trade situation to-day success by defeating Millwall at

followed up Saturday's away clash between the Government The matter will come before the heard Capt. Robert Dollar of the home, while West Bromwich had forces and a large armed party:

Dollar Steamship Line describe an easy victory at Charlton.

of Hathikhel Wazirs which oc the decrease in America's China In the First Division, the Wed- curred near Domel, in the Bannu trade as shown by tonnage car-nesday went down to Aston Villa District, last week, are describ- ried in Dollar vessels, which de- who won at Manchester on Satur-ed in the Government of India's clined 21 per cent. for the first day. The only away win in the weekly appreciation of the situa- half of 1930 as compared with division yesterday was that of the tion issued to-night. the corresponding period of last Arsenal who have won both their carly engagements, both away

He emphatically stated that there was no evidence of a desire within the Labour movement for "Socialism in our time." At the present time there was no organi-

By Friday, an Army of 400,000 sation capable of working the will be massed on the Kin-Han Explosives to be Used. change from capitalism without and Lung-llai fronts, ready for

tremendously dislocating the so- Brest, Sept. 1.

what is forecast as "one of the Divers declare that the P. and O. sial and economic life of the na-biggest drives in the present war." liner Egypt is not greatly damaged Lion.

Mr. Beard concluded by de- General Liu Shih, who directed as a result of her eight years' im- mersion. She is lying on an al.nouncing the Labour extremists the Government advance on Tsl- most even keel at depth of 360 for attacking the Government.-nanfu, has been appointed Com- feet. An Italian tug is now on the way to the location of the wreck with explosives with which divers will blow a hole in the Egypt's deck for the purpose or recovering the gold.--Reuter,

A British Wireless message also reports the discovery of the wreck of the Egypt and states that the weather will probably preclude efforts at salvage until next sea-

son.:

Electro Magnets Used.

Renter..

London, Sept. 1. The attitude of Trade Unions to tariffs was discussed by Mr. John Beard in his Presidential address to the Trade Union Congress at Nottingham to-day.

to

ever

mander-in-Chief of the Govern- ment forces on the Kin-Han front. whilst the former Commander-in- Chief, General Ho Chen-chun, is going to Liuho to assist Marshal Chiang Kai-shek-Reuter.

300,000.

.

from home.

Three away teams won in the

The full results of the matches, as cabled by Reuter are given

below:

(by That this Council authorises the sum of $100,000 out of

The Silver Problem. the said sum of $1,300,000 The price of silver, he said, de- to be charged to a future pends on the laws of supply and Aston Villa Ioan and sanctions an demand, and attempts to stabilize Blackburn advance of this sum of

the price cannot be of help to Bolton

Huddersfield China. $100,000 during the finan-

Capt. Dollar said that inbound Leicester

West Ham cial year 1930 from the tonnage of China goods carried on surplus balances of the Dollar ships was down 14 per Colony.

cent, while the freight revenues Barnsley

Capt. Dollar said that he will sail for China next month. Mr. Harold Dollar, his son, is to testify before the Senate committee soon.

Senator Pittman's Views.

Senator. Pittman announced that

First Division.

2 Wednesday

1 Portsmouth

1 Arsenal

2 Grimsby

2 Birmingham

7 Liverpool

Second Division.

1 Swansea

0 West Brom.

0 Notts, Forest

ONYNHO

It appears that a mixed force of regular infantry Frontier Con- stabulary and police had moved out from Bannu in the early- morning to occupy ground where Fazl Qadir, had been advertised a meeting under a hostile Mullah, and to effect the leading agitators.

arrest of the

The Mullah and his adherents O appeared with a large gathering 2 of armed followers and sent a message stating they were prepar- ed to surrender their leaders for arrest but only under the condi- tion that they were permitted to | march with their armed followers first to the place of meeting and 4thence to Bannu Gaol where they.

would give themselves up."

Stoke.

1 Bradford

Tattenham

8 Burnicy

Wolves

2 Millwall

0

+

Third Division (South).

0 Coventry Third Division (North).

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0 Accrington

1 Darlington

3

Barrow Crewe Doncaster Halifax Hartlepools Lincoln Stockport Tranmere

2 Rotherham

Gateshead

0 Southport

2. Wigan

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2 New Brighton

2 Carlisle

Officer's Death.

A magistrate and political res presentatives were sent to parley with the leaders, but the hostile lashkar of the Mullah meanwhile

0 continued its advance towards an 3 adjoining hamlet.

2

There they came up against a platoon of infantry which moved out to siop the laskar'a advance.. Captain Ashcroft, who was with the oplatoon, was attacked by one of the members of the lashkar and while attempting, to defend himself was

his committee has no intention of recommending that there be any HARMSWORTH TROPHY shot dead from behind by another. foreign military interference in

China,

RACE.

COMMODORE GAR WOOD. HOLDS HIS TITLE. ́

Peking Cabinet Formed. Mr. Beard said he did not think

Peking, Sept. 1. there, was the slightest likelihood

It will be recalled that quite re-declined $8 per cent. He added Charlton The formation of a new Peking that the movement would adopt a policy of all-round Protec- Cabinet, with Marshal Yen Hai-cently the Telegraph intimated that that the freight to Japan declin- Southampton tion. On the other hand, the shan as Chairman of the Govern- the approval of the Secretary ofed 10 per cent. for the same period. While it would be a great boon The Italian vessel Artiglio has Trade Union movement had not ment Executive Council, was dis- State to the vehicular ferry scheme made several attempts at the tied itself to any special doctrine cussed at considerable length at the had been obtained, and that it was to China to have the present civil salvage of the Egypt. In June regarding the Free Trade theory. residence of Mr. Wang Ching-wei estimated the scheme would be in warfare cease, according to Capt.

yesterday, when the Peking politi-operation within two years from Dollar, he did not feel able to Fulham this year the Artiglio accompanied He continued: by the Rostro arrived at Brest to "The opposite of Free Trade is cians decided on the appointment the date of commencement of con- suggest any method of stopping

of Mr. Wellington Koo as Foreign struction work. It was then learn the war. make yet another attempt to re-not tariffs. The opposite of Free Minister, Mr. Shen Hung-lich as ed that the question whether the cover the million pound treasure

Trade is regulated trade, and Minister of Navy, Mr. Tang Yat-actual control of the service and the in the Egypt. The liner was lying there are many ways of regulating woo as Minister of Education, Mr. building and maintenance of the In water nearly 100 feet deep some trade and therefore many methods Liang Yu-chow as Finance Minis ferry-boats was to be in the hands fifteen miles off Finisterre. of establishing economical rela-ter, Mr. Chia Koo-teh as Minister of Government or private enter-

with other nations besides methods of Communications, General La prise had not been decided. of tariffs..

Chung-lin as Minister of War. Me The scheme, it is believed, will On that occasion the Artiglio "In considering such links, we Hsich Tu-pei as Minister of In-be carried out largely in accordance erected electro-magnetic equip shall listen to any case that may terior, and General Hu Chung-teh with the proposals laid down in ment with which it was hoped to be put up for a tariff just as as Minister of Labour and Com-the Sessional Paper, which was draw the liner section by section much 19 for any other merce, while the ministries of In-published by the Government in to the surface after it had been methods. Therefore ta tiedustry, Agricultural and Mining 1928, which, in addition to provid-

"At the same time we must, al- blown up with dynamite.

ourselves in advance, or only and Justice will be organised by ing for piers and offices also in-

boats ways be ready to lend a helping discuss matters on Free Messrs Chu Shao-kwang, Tang Yu-cludes double-ended ferry Trade lines, is a direct denial of liang and Lo Wan-kan.

capable of carrying 12 five-seater hand; though we must stand aside mean that we our own right to interfere with The renewal of activities among cars and passengers, at an estimat-now, it does not

shall allow our nationals in China: economic conditions. Trade Peking politicians is consequent on ed cost of over $1,700.000.

to be killed or our property to be Unions cannot and will not do that. the receipt of a telegram from

destroyed. "Let us examine the case for Marshal Yen Hsi-shan rnnouncing and against every suggested pro-his intention of accepting the post posal. Let us judge each case on as Chairman of the new Govern- its merits. Expediency in the ment. broadest sense of that term must

Various Parties, be our guide, and not some ab- stract principle which may have

Among the Ministers elected it no relation to the actual facts and is to be noted that while the chief problems with which we are lieutenant of Marshal Fang Yu- faced."

hsiang has been assigned to the A fatal motor.accident occurred Mr. Beard compared the task of Ministry of War, a post which at the junction of Des Voeux Road The Egypt Disaster.

the Labour Government to that of Marshal Feng himself held with and Pedder Street yesterday after- rebuilding a road without stopping the Central Government until the noon, when a small Chinese boy The P. and O. liner Egypt sank traffic, and he appealed for loyal recent rebellion, Marshal Yen was knocked down and run over on May 20 off Ushant after a col-Parly support for the Government Hsi-shan's private secretary, Mr. by a public motor car. lision with the French steamer and its head, Mr. Ramsay Mac- Hsieh Tu-pei, is elected as Minis According to a report to the ly concerned-the aim to help Seine. The liner was on her way Donald-British Wireless,

ter of Interior, which is the police made by Chan Tuk-wai, a China to stand on her own feet, from Bombay to London' at the

portfolio which Marshal Yen Hsi-licensed motor driver residing at free, prosperous, unified and hap time and was proceeding slowly

shan held with the Nanking 67. Des Voeux Road Central, he py" and precariously in thick fog

Government recently. which surrounded the French coast. The collision occurred about seven o'clock in the evening when the passengers were at dinner.

The giant electro-magnets, how ever, so affected, the compasses of the

two salvage vessels that an- other vessel had to be chartered to assist in determining the posi- tion of the wreck..

In July last year, the Artiglio, after a month's search, abandoned the attempt and went in search of the British liner. Drummond Cas- tle. sunk in 1919, between Le Coquet and Ouessant with £6,000.- 000 in gold

board. After locating the hull of the latter, she returned later and resumed search | for the Egypt.

on

IDENTIFYING TOWNS FROM THE AIR.

OF

The Hague, Sept. 1.

FATAL MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT.·'

CHINESE LAD. KILLED IN THE CITY.

Protection of Foreigners. "No nation has ever forwarded the cause of peace by weakness when a moral principle is involv- ed. No nation can help build a united and prosperous China by permitting the Chinese to destroy the principles upon which inter- national society stands.

Detroit, Sept. 1. Commodore Gar Wood won the Harmsworth Trophy Race, success- fully defending his title to the world speed-boat championship. His average speed was 77.39 miles an hour for the thirty mile course. Commodore Wood's brother, George, finished second.

A general engagement at close quarters, with hand-to-hand fight- ing, then took place.. The Govern- ment casualties were nine killed, including Captain Ashcroft, and ten wounded, and the hostile. casualties were forty-two killed including Mullah Fazl Qadir and

more thirty wounded and

than eighty, captured. The situation was cleared up.

Peshawar Situation. The report states that the Peshawar district border remain- ed quiet and that the area of The only British competitor was

hostile activity moved south to- Miss Carstairs who thought her wards Fochi Valley. The situa- boat would stand a better chance tion is well in hand but contains Reference if driven by Mr. Bert Hawker, but serious possibilities.. "By protecting our own nation-the change was unsuccessful.is also made to the terrorist als, we actually help to forward Reuter'a American Service, the aims which we share Japan and England-I speak of them because they are most deep-

F

Financial Aid Needed.

with

GORDON BENNETT

RACE.

activity in Bengal reported. The Legislative Council, by passing the Bengal Law Amendment Act, recently furnished special powers to deal with the movement. It is hoped that their vigorous use will bring it under effective control, but the difficulties, of preventing. BALLOONISTS START OUT isolated outrages are considerable.

·FROM CLEVELAND.

Boycott Continues, As first witness, Mr. Crocheron of the University of California

Cleveland, Sept. 1.

The report-mentions that the College of Agriculture charac- terized China as suffering from nett balicon race started from the strength and that the picketing at The international Gordon Ben-educational boycott is losing over-population and internal dis-Municipal Aerodrome to-day. The Allahabad University has been sension, while adequate means of favourites include Belgians, Ger- abandoned, owing largely to the transportation are lacking.

mans, Americans and Frenchmen. opposition of the students them- Financial aid must be given in Reuter's American Service. selves. The boycott of foreign order to end the present chaos,

goods still continues and remains Mr. Crocheron said.

the main success of Congress. Consequent diatress of many thou-

was driving public vehicle No. 506 The Manchurian Government has along Des Voeux Road, near considerable influence in the new Pedder Street, when a Chinese boy Cabinet, since that the Ministers named Hui Hong-sheung, aged CONFERENCE SUGGESTS USE of Navy and Foreign Affairs as seven, of 29, Kimberley Road, The force of the impact shook

well as Mr. Lo Wen-kan are wall Kowloon, was knocked down and the passengers from their chairs

known for their support of General run over. and they rushed on deck to find

Chang Hauch-liang.

The lad was killed on the spot, that the Egypt had been badly The International Air Conference The Kwangs! party, which con- and his body was removed to the holed and that the water was has decided to ask every town of troiled Kwangsi and Kwangtung Public Mortuary, pouring in. At this time the over 10,000 inhabitants to show a in its hey-day, is represented by vessel was about twenty miles sign, according to a system to be General Hu Chung-tuh as Minister from Brest and wireless messages determined later, whereby pilots of Labour and Commerce, and PROMOTIONS FOR THE Mr Woost, is to submit DEATH ON BIRTHDAY.sands of Indian dealers is increas were sent out for assistance. will be able to identify the town General Li Chung-yen as one of The Egypt was struck by the over which they are flying-the members at the Executive Seine on the port side and sank Router.

twenty minutes after the collision.

Many people immediately jumped

into the sea and clung to floating knives

It was

were

used

Council.

Manchurian Attitude,

PRINCE.

IN NAVY, ARMY AND THE AIR FORCE..

London, Sept. 1.

William, Montgomery, a

studies he has made into the silver question and also into Chinese currency reform, contend- ing that the economic condition of China at the present time is due to lack of a uniform.policy of meet borrowing in order to administration expenses, together with a lack of tax system and domination by the militarists.

MR. BENGTSSON SUCCUMBS IN SHANGHAI,

Shanghai, Sept. 2. Mr. John Bengtsson, who was injured at the Velodrome on Satur day when riding a pace-making motor cycle at 60 miles an

hour,

died in the Country Hospital_to- day, which was his 25th birthday. -Our Own Correspondent.

ings

The report expresses the view that generally enthusiasm for the civil disobedience movement is declining, but if ite.failure be- comes more pronounced the activities of those who favour violence are likely to increase British Wireless.

and pisals objects until they were picked up drawn when the panic started.

It is believed that the formation After the collision the Seine

stated that a Lascar of a Peking Government is in searched for twenty minutes seaman shot a pasenger who tried connexion with the determination before locating the Egypt and then to get his wife into one of the ship's of the Manchurian Government His Royal Highness the Prince used all her life saving apparatus boats which was beseiged by other to control Peking and Tientsin of Wales has been promoted Vice-

Peace Talks Fail? In the ever-thickening fog to Lascars. It was also alleged that The establishment of this Govern- Admiral, Lieutenant-General, and

Menace to the World. rescue passengers and crew. The the seamen jumped into a boatment is considered the final effort Air Marshal He thus passes over

Allahabad, Sept. 1. Seine remained standing by for loaded with women and children, of the Shanat commanders to con- the ranks of Rear Admiral, Major-

Chicago, Aug. 27.

Mr. Jayaker and Sir Tej Baha“: four and a half hours after the The French Press stated at the tinue with the war. Marshal General, Air Vice-Marshal and Air

As personal representative of

dir Sapru have interviewed the Egypt had gone down.

time that the pasengers were un Yen Hal-shan has remitted $300 Commodore.

President Hoover, Mr. William

Nehrus in prison and it is believ

Lascars Blamed.

animous that if the Lascars had be-000 to General Chang Chung-chang.It is understood that the three Castle, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Interests between Ameries and ed that the peace talks have fall- haved differently there would have in Japan, asking the latter to promotions were announced to State, opened the British-Ameri- Japan, he asserted, nor is there ed-Reuter There was a panic on board the been no loss of life.

return to China.

gether in order to honour all the can games here to-night.

any remote possibility of a clash. I

Girl Arrested. Egypt, but the ship's officers work- That a comparatively small ves General Chang Chung-chang is Services simultaneously Reuter. Commenting on naval limita- Mr. Castle said that China is in.

Calcutta, Sept. 1. ed heroically, Many passengers sel like the Seine caused such dam known to have some Influence, in were got into the boats before the age to the Egypt was explained, by Shantung Province, and Marshal

tion, he discredited talk of a a sadly different situation. yellow-peril and said that A nation which cannot rule Sobharant Duit, a young Ben- liner went down and these were the fact that the French steamer Yen Halsen i therefore destrousing that if supplies are not forth during his recent period as acting itself," he declared, "must always gali girl who is related to, and picked up by the Seine which was constructed for service in ice of enlisting his support. rescued 280 people. French war-strewn northern seas. The loss of

Coming in a week's time the Kuo- American Ambassador to Tokyo, be a menace to the rest of the former Presidency Magistrate, and ships picked up other survivors.life in conexion with the Egypt was Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has minchun forces along the Lung- he learned that Japan considers world. With Japan, England and five Bengall youths have been ar

cant bomb outrages. Reuter, When the passengers were land-15 passengers and 80 of the crew telegraphed to Taiyuanfu asking Hai Rallway will have to retreat the people of the United States as the rest, we can only look sadly rested in connexion with the

In France, they alleged that lost.

for ammunition and food, declar to Shanal here they can find food friends. There is no clash of at the chaos in China,"