1
Eperton Model 10
SPARTON
SUPER
MODERN
Radio
Your Dealer
IDEAL RADIO SERVICE Tel. 27806.
FINAL EDITION.
ChinaTM Mail
ESTABLISHED 1845.
TO-DAY'S 'DOLLAR. --- The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5. 5/18.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
No. 28,021
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1932.
REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS.
BRITAIN AND SOVIET RUSSIA.
CHINESE SNIPERS MAKE DETERMINED ATTACK.
ADMIRAL SHIOZAWA DIRECTS REPRISALS
DYNAMITE ON A JUNK.
Master's Alleged Bribe to Police Inspector.
ALDRICH BAY INCIDENT.
Lam Hoi-yip, master of a fishing junk, and Lam Hoi-kee, a fisher- man, appeared before Mr. W.
REFUGEES COMMENCE LOOTING Schofield in the Central Police
(From Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, To-day.
One of the most determined attacks hitherto perpetrated by supposed snipers against the Japanese was launched when the Consulate and
Court this morning, charged, as i follows:-
First defendant-unlawful pos- session of 317 sticks of dynamite,
General Cancellation Favoured by Britain.
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER'S STATEMENT.
Rugby, Yesterday.
of 205 detonators and 2 colls of fuse,
without permission from the In- spector General of Police.
Both defendants with giving
that the
a
Question of Inter- Governmental Debts.
DU
OP
In
a class
Itself
THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
NEGOTIATIONS DROPPED. MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON
EXPLAINS AIM
MUST
BREAK VICIOUS CIRCLE
OF ARMAMENTS
the flagship docked nearby to the wharf were suhbribe of $50 to Inspector Godfrey was that a comprehensive and per loan must be made to Russia, be at Geneva this evening.
Albert Stimson.
Rugby, Yesterday. Sir John Simon announced in the House of Commons to-day, that the British Government had informed the Russian Ambassa dor that no useful purpose could be served to go on continuing In the House of Command to-day, negotiations in regard to settle- Chancellor Mr. Neville Chamberlain, declared, between Britain and Soviet Rus- the Exchequer, ment of inter-Government debts
Rugby, Yesterday. British Government's Bia Britain refused to accept|
Delegations of over sixty nations were pre- policy on the. Reparations question the principle that a credit or sent, when the Disarmament Conference opened manent settlement should be reach fore progress could be made in jected to a hail of individual automatic rifle - fire First defendant pleaded guilty ed as soon as possible. They be the debts and claims negotia- The President, Mr. Arthur Henderson, before to the charge of possession. lieved that this could best be realis- tions. British Wireless Service. beginning his address, made reference to the which lasted for half an hour.
Giving the facts of the case, cd, by a general cancellation of re- The unusual feature of the action was that, in- Insp. Stimson said that laat even-parations and war debts.
"tragic fact that, at the moment when the Confer As soon na the report of the stead of fleeing at the first few bursts, the con- ing on information received, in cealed snipers advanced to other positions nearer he boarded a fishing junk lying in had urged the necessity of the Gov. They alde suggested that some wards maintenance of peace, begins its work we company with a Chinese detective, foreign experts was received they mental conference to May or June. ence, the very purpose of which is to take steps to- to the objectives and kept up a fusillade.
provisional arrangement be made. Light Aldrich Bay, Shaukiwan. In one ernments coming together machine guns aboard the flagship answered the of the three holds of the craft mediately to conclude a permanent covering the year to July 1 when are confronted with a situation of extreme gravity the Hoover moratorium expired in the Far East. It is imperative that all signators beneath a cargo of loose, salt they settlement of the reparations ques- fire from the shore, while Admiral Shiozawa him- came across a chatty, in which tion on the basis of fact established An interchange of views had of the Covenant and of the Briand-Kellogg Fact self is understood to have taken part in directing first defendant openly admitted in the experts' unanimous report. taken place with the French Gov- should make it their business to ensure a strict ob-
(dynamite was concealed.
It became apparent, however, ernment, but as full concord had not reprisals.
Referring to the alleged offer of that the present juncture was not been possible among the Gevern Servance of these two great safeguards against Wives, children and Consular attaches have a bribe, Inspector Stimson sald, favourable to a settlement on such ments chiefly concerned, it appeared acts of violence and war.' evacuated the Consulate. Four large shells appar-
Mr. Henderson declared, that the Conference's alby the Conference when it meets.--| ently from Chinese field guns, of heavy calibre,
postponement of the inter-govern-British Wireless Service,
task was:- landed on the Whangpoo River close to the Italian gunboat Libia.
Thousands of refugees are streaming into French town rendering progress on the main ar- terial roads impossible. Barbed wire barricades were erected, acting like bottlenecks through which the dense bustling throng struggle and jostle. The refugees attacked and looted several rice shops.
ARGYLLS LAND AT NOON
JAPANESE LAUNCH LAND AND SEA ATTACK ON WOOSUNG FORTS.
(Reuter's Pacific Service).
Shanghai, To-day.
H.M.S. Berwick arrived with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who disembarked at the Customs Jetty at noon. Eighteen Japanese 'planes coming from air-carriers at present lying off the Saddle Islands were seen aloft reconnoitring Chapel.
ducted he overheard second defen- pressed willingness to agree to when the search was being con- a basis. They, accordingly, ex-best to leave the rest for settlement
(Continued on Page 8.)
\\NEMONED STA
CHIPAO
BRLANES STE
CHENJ
Map of Shanghai,
KINGMAN KHANININ GOLF
YANGYSZE RIVER
THE SHELLING OF NANKING.
Firstly, to reach an agreement on a pro- gramme of practical proposals to secure speedily a substantial reduction and limitation of all nation- al armaments.
Secondly, to determine that no armaments be maintained outside the scope of that treaty.
Thirdly, to plan a continued advance towards the ultimate goal, without detracting from the present effort by agreeing to similar conferences at reasonably short intervals.
Making such a treaty a reality involved the whole issue of peace and war, he added. They must break the vicious circle of armaments. The pro- blem was vitally relevant to the world's financial and economic crisis.-British Wireless Service.
SOCIETY LADY WEDS "WHITE HUNTER”
EXCITES PLACID EAST AFRICAN CIRCLES
DISPLEASED FATHER
LITERALLY CUTS DAUGHTER WITH
ATM SHILLING.
Japanese forces opened an attack on Woosung ous situation which has developed at Shanghai out Forts from land and sea at 11.30 a.m. Six Japanese of the strained Sino-Japanese relations, was taken destroyers are bombarding forts to cover the dis- to-day. Both at Nanking and Tokyo simultaneous- embarkation of the landing force. Reuter's Paci- ly identic proposals with this end in view were made A JAPANESE DENIAL. fic Service.
to the Chinese and Japanese Governments on be- ARGYLLS MARCH THROUGH THE TOWN. half of Great Britain, the United States, France and
The Japanese Consul-General, Shanghai, To-day. Italy.
Hong Kong, yesterday, issued the At two o'clock sharp, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
following disclaimer, in respect of numbering about 800 strong, formed up at the Customs' Jetty and
At Geneva, on the initiative of Great Britain, the news that Japanese gunboats set up at Naniding Road, headed by the pipes, through teeming a special meeting of the League Council was sum-started shelling: Nanking at 11.15 Chinese crowds who gazed blankly at the Highlanders, while their moned in which the Dominions Secretary (Mr. J. H. p.m. on Monday, February 1, Scottish patriots cheered from the top floors of two hotels in the Thomas) formally brought to the notice of the "According to the information
CHAPEI BOMBED.
Council the gravity of the latest developments in received by this Consulate-General ter and her father's "white hunter," while the the situation, and read a statement, which the For- Chinese started shelling on Japan father was away hunting, and the father's subse- eign Secretary (Sir John Simon) was, almost at the ese gunboats. At about 9 o'clock quent displeasure upon learning of the match, have same moment, making in London to the House of p.m. on Monday, three shells were excited placid East African social life. Commons, which reassembled this afternoon
water --front, ⠀⠀
At the same time Japanese bombing 'planes are circling over tortured Chapel, the sound of exploding bomber being punctuated by the rattle of machine guns, though the fighting has now extended farther from the Settlement. Smoke is streaming aloft from new The Japanese Consul General has just officially informed the
fires in Chapel.
British and American Consuls-General of Japan's intention forth- with to occupy, Woosung-Reuter's Pacific Service,
CONCERTED INTER- NATIONAL ACTION
FOREIGN SECRETARY MAKES IMPORTANT STATEMENT TO. HOUSE OF COMMONS
(Reuter's Special Service).
Nairobi, Yesterday. The surprise wedding between a Peer's daugh-
Last week, Andrew Rattray, the fifty-year-
fired by the Lion Hill Forts on Japanese gunboats, and at the same time; Chinese troops on the water Scotsman, married Miss Averil Furness, the front started. Bring. Accordingly twenty-three-year-old daughter of Viscount the Japanese gunboats. Hirado, and ness. This union in itself caused a stir, but a ner Tenryu were obliged to answer and stir was created when Viscount Furness sent new in all 10 shells were fired by gun The Foreign Secretary stated peated, and had urged the Jap shelling Due to Misunder
boats by about 11 o'clod, pm that he was returning hastily and issued are that hostilities of a very serious anese and Chinese Governments nature broke out on the night of and their Commanders on the that the firing on Mon
in a local paper that Battray had It now definitel January 28 between the Chinese spot to accept a scheme, put,
hite hunter to my safari and has no
anything
my account British Government regards of the Bri
WALLABY ESCAPES
TO END PERILOUS STATE danse at Shanghal. The ward as the result of
IN THE FAR EAST
FOUR POWERS IN UNISON
United international: *
these events with both
Consul
(to;}; a misund