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VOL. IV NO. 133

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1919.

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MR A.V. ALEXANDER ON COLONY'S Aneurin Bevan As Next

Chinese

Reds Start A Treasure Hunt

San Francisco, June 7.- The Chinese Communist rulers of Shanghai on Tues. day offered rewards for in- formation on hidden invest-} ments. and property of China's "Big Four familles." It ordered the business partners of the four familles to register, blong with U10 Nationalist Secret

organisations

criminals".

The

and

Servico "wor

four familles are those

of Chiang Kai-shek, two of his

-1103

Mr. A. V. Alexander 'snapped brothers-in-law, Mr T. V. Soong | at this morular's and Mr 1. 11. Kung, and that ference, of his close poliiden associates Marshal the brothers Chen Li-fu and Chen Kuo-fu.

The broadcast from China, heard by the Associated Press at San Francisco, sald the slops

press On 1 tl Is Alr Sir William Elliot. Cider of Stal-Picture by staff photographer,

were laken by Shanghai HUSSARS ON

Οι

Milliary Control Committee.

"The proclamation

of the Committee sald that those who report the hidden investmenta und property of these persons and secrét service organisations would be rewarded according- ly," the broadcast stated.

WAY HERE

Singapore, June 8—A British Army. spokesman for the Anlaya district headquarters announced on Tuesday that a detachment

4th

IMMUNITY PROMISED "Action would not be taken

the fron against those who conceal pro Queen's Own Hussars Regiment perty for them (the four is leaving Kuala Lumpur by families) If the concealed pro- special train for Singapore. perty was handed over to Committee",

tho

The troops will embark here Kungs are for Hongkong, to reinforce the families in defonces of ilial colony, the

Informant said.

The Soongs and among the richest the world.

The Chianga and Chens also are wealthy.

Holdings of the Soonga and Kungs Ecoliered all over Chinos Thir financial ramifications are so involved that it is difficult

to establish

what

properties

they own in Shanglial,

Nationalist officers and men who

The. Hussars arrived in Molaya last September and went into action against Communist in- urgents after a short period of training.-Associated Press.

Another broadcast said 10,000 U.S.-Hongkong were captured on the Hangchaw Telephone Service

front, South

of Shanghai, hadi

DEFENCES Shengking

Passengers'

Garrison Strength Prospects

Not Full Extent

Of Resources

PRESS CONFERENCE

Mr A. V. Alexander, Britain's Defence Minister, told a press conference conducted in the Secretariat Council Chamber this morning that the 12,000 troops which are shortly to garrison Hongkong are “not the extent of our resources.” When asked to claborate, Mr Alexander replied, “I have said what I have said.”.

The Defence Minister, who is here to make an on-the-spot investigation of the defence situation in the Colony, was the target for a barrage of questions from more than 30 pressmen. He also faced a battery of flash- light cameras.

Mr Alexander was accompanied by Air Marshal Sir William Elliot (Chief of Staff, RAF) and Mr Wood, Private Secretary.

Before the press conference, which started

at 10.40, the Defence Minister was in conference with the Hongkong Defence Committee." This meeting was also attended by Service comman. ders and high ranking police officials.

been given traveling expenses New York, June 7. The owered that

to return to their homes,

EDITORIAL

Priss

the defence

Pact. It is a question for the Foreign Ministers of the Stator involved. It

may affect

the defence of a country.

Quselion: What prompted your visit here?

Brighter

MAY BE ALLOWED TO LAND IN S’HAF]

Shanghal, June 8-Al- though compelled to spend the night hourd the ship, the 20 foreign passengers who arrived yesterday in the Rutterfield & Swire steamer. Shengking had #1 good chance of being permitted to disembark 1oday, it was learned.

According to a Butterfield & Swire oflicial, the authori- ties adopted a most under- standing attitude during day-long negotiations yes- | terday and the Company had high hopes that the foreign group would be allowed to land today.

He revealed that negotiations. lasted until late yesterday even. ing when they were suspended and not broken off.

He declared that officials of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of thin Shanghai Military Commission with whom the negollations hud carried on had been most under. siending and courteous and die- closed that although they would grant, permission for landing they never once suggested tha the ship take the foreigners belt

to Hongkong.

He added, "We understand that the authorities are not un willing

admit foreigners but are not ready to admit them in the absence of new foreign travel regulations.

Colonial Secretary?

BIG

CABINET CHANGES FORECAST

ANEURIN BEVAN

(By Our London Correspondent)

Appalling Plane Disasters

71 LIVES LOST

London, June 7-Big British Cabinct changes aro planned according to information received by tho London Evening Standard's special corres pondent attending the Labour Party conference at Blackpool.

"Despite an

He writes: official denial of 'drastic Cabinet reconstructions" nearly three weeks ago

it has become known among informed Socialist personal- ities attending the Parly conference that Mr Atticu has definitely decided on im- portant change: in hig Cabinet.

Ik

HECTOR MCNEIL

"The

nppointments, It understood, will be announced carly in the autumn. Beenuse some of the senior members of the Cabinot are involved, it is possible publication of the news changes the Prime Minister will "In making these and other will be followed by a denial, Little reliance should be placed on this; it is known the changes are fixed and will be announcedi officially in due course.

BIGGEST CHANGE

"The biggest change involves the Minister of Health, 52- year-old. Mr Aneurin Bevon.

the nationalised railways. of the Hotels Executive, under

general election. be clearing the

decks for the

"There is no likelihood what- ever of an election in the autumn unless economic conditions in this country become really acute. All plans by Government are for an election next summer.

Then the Premier Intends to present the country with a now

San Juan, Puerto Rico, He will be succeeded by Lord Cabinot." June 7-About 45 Puerto Inman, the £5,000 a year boss. Ricans were believed to have been killed today when a twin-engined transport plane "By the appointment crashed into the shark.Peer to such an

ministry Mr Carribean infested

be creating

sensational shortly after taking off precedent. The from San Juan

for for Now the change. is that Mr Bevan, York.

believing his National Health

вед

number of

Allee

of o important will

reason

Soviet Plan Rejected

At the outset of the Fress conference, Mr Alexander cold that i was not usual for a De fence Minister to answer a lot of questions straight off the fence, but he would endeavour to answer such questions, with

Mr Alexander: Naturally the the proper attitude of a

In this part Do position

of the fence Minister with reference world is one of flux and diffi- culty, and naturally as Defence to malters of security.

Mr Alexander was asked if Minister I want to study the he thought

of position for myself on the spot.

Paris, June 7-Russia to Hongkong was primarily mill-intimation as to the conclusions

Asked if he could give any NEW REGULATIONS SOON

Six hours after the crash scheme is now fully launched, day offered a revised 12-

of a tary or political and he on-

coastguards raid that 28 of the has asked to be relieved of he had reached, the Defence Asked whether Chinese of 73 passengers aboard had been post that, in his view required point plan for the unifica- defence questions Minister replied that he thought cinis had indicated when these rescued including all' Ave mem- now not American Telephone and Tele-In the modern age were over.

of Berlin but the a politician, but a tion The Communists also reported graph Company opened telo. (oll,

it would be his duty to report regulations would be announced bers of the crew. The plane skilled administrator. Lord In-Western Powers quickly re- that river steamer

to his Government. service had phone service to Hongkong to- A Chinese correspondent: Is

he sald, "We understand that it an N-10 army surplus troop man is one of the best adminis- jected the proposal and been reopened all the way from day at a charge of £3 for three there any necessity

When asked if he felt that will be very, soon." for con-

carrier

operated by Strato trators in the Socialists" ranks. Jasked Russia to accept their Shanghai to Hangkow, more minutes from everywhere in the cluding a Pacific Pact?

there been over-reference to than 500 miles up the Yangise. United States

"Mr Bevan will be promoted, own plan for à singlo city defence of

He said that the Company's Freight-Ind Associated.

Mr Alexander. I-am- not. hero Kong, Mr Alexander replied Hongkong-Office-had-nccepted children, includitur two babita The job in view for him is Seere government. -Assoclated Press.

for discussions on a Pacific that he had no doubt that the bookings from foreign passengers 10 aged between two and

tory of State for the Colonies, a pressmen bad studied very because the local office had been 11, among its passengers.

pest now held by Mr Creech The new Soviet proposal, an carefully the statement he had given to understand, that foreign

The plane crashed about 160 Jones.

elaboration of the cariler plan submitted

the made in the House of Commons residents would be permitted to metres off Point Salinas, just

by

Soviet "Another post Involved in Foreign Minister, on May 5, and he referred to return. Ho disclosed that the west of San Juan.

Mr Andrei or two of the

would principal Shengking

Icave for Survivors said that before the changes is that of Seere-Vyshinsky, would make all de- sections of that statement with Hongkong tomorrow morning the crash one engine spluttered tary of State for Commonwealth cisions of the Berlin elly regard to the relations between and not this morning as origin and died and the captain asked Relations. This post is now held government subject to the veto. the British Government and the ally announced. He attributed permission to return to the by Mr Philip Noel Baker,

the Government of China.

delay to the pressure of airport. cargo unloading work.

SINKS QUICKLY. BRITAIN'S POLICY

After the 'crash "Our policy," he added, "I to

The foreign passengers consist

quickly, Dccording to maintain the friendliest possible of 16 Britons, three Americans

survivors. Coastguard cutters 30-year-old Minister of State is proposal is that It brings with

mentioned in the changes now, in the veto powers of one com- relationship with whatever may and a Frenchman.

and planes from Miami, planned. He will probably be mander any acts the city au be at the given moment the

According to Chinese press Florida, rescued the survivors promoted from Cabinet rank to thorities may lako,"United Government of China."

brought ashore several reports a ship-lond of oll is on and Questioned

about his

triits way hero from Hongkong bodies found floating in flie round the New Territories, Mr

to boost the oil supply of the water. Alexander replied that he was very satisfied with a very de

Shanghai Power Company. They continued the search tailed inspection which he made. The oil, which amounts to tonight for possible survivors clinging to will be sufficient who might still be and was impressed by the

to last for three weeks.

rocky small

lalands in the kconness-and-offcloney with all of those with whom he came in

This all purchase has been area.

The aircraft's caplain and made possible with a loan to contact.

stewardess were rescued. Small boats, braving trea-.

IT

Constitutional Reform

is regrettable that the Chinese Reform Club should see fit to regard any opinion other than that advanced by its members as being in diametrical opposition, more especially as the issue In point-constitutional reform for Hongkong-is n subject that still calls for exploration and not dogmatic and un- compromising declarations, Speeches delivered at a reception held on Monday by the CNC tended to follow the Ilnes that anybody not in agreement with the proposed municipal counell scheme, is automatically against it, and committed to another idea which must, in itself, be a complete negative of the municipal council proposition.

Such a frame of mind is deprecated. There is no popular opinon for the complete abandonment of the idea of a municipal council. It is true that the,, notice of motion given to the Legislative Council nearly alx weeks ngo by Mr Landale contemplated scrap. "ping of the original Mark Young plan, and subsiltuting for it a new type of Legis- tative Council. But that notice of motion, was wholly tentative in design, and when put forward, it was made clear that it was intended to obtain, if possible, publie opinion on the proposition. Despite the original.phrasing of the notice of motion, It can be categorically claimed that constitutional reform of the Legislative Council does not depend upon elimination of a municipal council. Constitutional nreform can, and should, Include both

objects. The municipal council, envisaged in the Ordinance made public, during the weekend, offers but the most limited form of local administration by popular mandate, and cannot measure up In importance to the preposition of having elected members to the Legislative Council, with an unofficial majority. But the two projects combined; would mark a tremendous step forward. In local- administration. There is nothing in- compatitable about the simultaneous création” of municipal council and

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reconstitution of the existing Legislature, and that is why we have given, at least qualified, approval to both ideas. We believe it is an entirely erroneous inter- 'pretation on the part of the Chineso Reform Club to suggest that introduction of the Municipal Council Ordinance indicates Government is well disposed only toward such a local authority, and that It opposes any reform of the Legis- Inture. The Mark Young plan, which had already received the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colònies," could not be scrapped incontinently simply because a notice of motion, at a much inter dale, had been introduced into Legislative Council. The machinery for translating the Young Plan Into Ordinance form had previously been put in motion and, publication of the Ordinance was inevitable. This does not mean either that the Bill is going to be folsted on the public agolást ita majority wishes, any more than it means that Mr Landale's notice of motion has dięd_stillborn. The two projecte can be realised without one Jeopardising the other, and this should now be the ultimate afm of all those who' sincerely desiro constitutional reform in Hongkong. While. there are important degrees of difference. between the two objectives, it requires? but a modicum of willlar compromise to achieve them both, The points of view about creating a municipal council and of reconstituting the Legislative Council need not-in fact, should not be divergent. They share the important common nim of seeking greater participation. In adminis- trative affairs through elected representa, tives of the community, and it in on this foundation that the Chinese Reform Club, Hongkong Reform Club and other articu... late bodies who represent public opinion should eschew, restricted conceptions: of! constitutional reform and seek to..win approval for a comprehensive scheme that embodies a municipál counell and a new Jegislature.VÁTN

onc

15,000 tons,

aank

the

.

"Both Mr Creech Jones and The U.S. Secretary of State Mr Noel Baker are likely to be Mr Dean Acheson

from Government. Vyshinsky at today's meeting, dropped the plane

The name of M Hector McNell,The vital error of the Soviet

tok Mr

A correspondent: Would you the Shanghai Power Company They were seriously injured. expect a threat to Hongkong by the People's Bank which

or the has completed remittance procherous, seas from the Communists Nationalists?

Mr Alexander: You would not |expect me to make a statement

on such a question as that.

Ho added that he did not soo who would drive a wedge be- tween us and anybody but he certainly would not be the in- strument for it.

Asked if the reinforcements sent here were for a military of a psychologically politicni pur- replied that both were

cedure, the reports added. Reuter.

Mounted Police

Charge

of direct antional importance. Demonstrators

Are

the

A correspondent: piesent allocations of reinforce- ments sufficient? -

BEWILL: MAKE · REPORT

Mr. Alexander: I shall make my report to the Home Govern- ment and they will make the decision.

rescue women

to join in the work, picked up two who had been clinging

to a reck for five hours,

The plant, designed to carry

about 40 troops and crew, was of the type known during the war as the Curtiss Commande— Reuter.

SECOND CRASH

Rio de Janeiro, June 7-A plane of the Brazilian Air Forc crashed against a mountain to day after leaving Florianopolis with 20 persons aboard.

New York, June 7- First word from the Minister Twenty-two mounted police of Aeronautics said all aboard

were dead. men today charged on their horses into 3,000 longshore- yesterday at seven a

The Air Force pláne left Rio and men to break up a threaten- crashed Just before reaching jed ́rlot.·

When asked if he thought tornal security measures in the jobs. to rout what they called storms.

Dock workers, walked off their ranopolis, which is a region

Colony Were sufficient, Mr Communist-inspired

Alexander replied by saying that from their no Defence Minister was evor

"

subjected to torrential

six were Aboard the plane picketą national head crew members and 200 passen- satisfied with anything that arters. Mounted police, rein-gers, the majority of whom were

forced

with flying wedges of Air Force officers and their was done on any subject in foot patrolmen, sent members of familles en route 10 Porto the political

Ther sphere. al both factions sprawling in the Alegre. ways look stopa to Improve street. wherever it was possible.

A rescue plane which Печу Several policemen were hit by over the ale of the crnah To the question na to whether flying mizalica and some radioed the Ministry of Aero- there would be possible restric-passersby knocked down. When nautles that no sign of life could tion on people entering Hong- it all ended, Joseph Ryan, In-be seen-United Press, kong in the event of there being ternational Longshoremen As- more people here than the place sociation president, led an Im- Frankkfurt, Juno 7-A German could hold, Mr Alexander re- promplu victory parade, artificial Umb firm has invented plied that that question would The Incident grow out of an electrically-operated hand be dealt with primarily by the charges, by negro members of which automatically brings into Government of Hongkong, but the Longshoremen's union, that ure three or five fingers scoord- the attitude of HM Governinant Ryan indiscriminated against ing to whether the object to be

(Continued on, Page 5) them.-United Press.

lifted is heavy or light-Reuter.

a seat in the Cabinet,

Pres.

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