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HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932.
GRAND OLD MAN OF STIFF SENTENCE FOR
GERMANY RE-ELECTED
COMFORTABLE MAJORITY
FOR PRESIDENT VON
HINDENBURG
THE MARSHAL REFUSES TO STAY
OF BED FOR RESULT.
(Reuter's Special Service.)
Berlin, Yesterday,
SOLDIER BURGLAR.
Found Asleep in a Peak Residence.
PREVIOUS CONVICTION.
Frank admission of guilt in answer to three charges, namely,
The Peak, on April 8; theft of a
HIGH ADVISERSHIP.
To the Chinese
Government.
OFFERED TO SIR ROBERT HỌ TỪNG.
A telegram from Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Pre-
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
MANCHUKUO GOVERNMENT
REBUFFED.
China Refuses to Receive a Message.
It
DR. KOO'S STATUS.
(Renter's Pacific Service.)
Nanking, Yesterday.
is reported by the
breaking and entering No. 159, OUT Falconer eight-day clock, the sident of the Executive Kuo Min News Agency that the Yuan at Loyang, has long-expected message was re- property of sonie person un-
ernment this evening, refusing known; and giving false informa- been received by Sir ceived from the Manchukuo Gov- Lion when pledging the clock at Robert Ho Tung offer- permission to Dr. Wellington the Yan Wo Pawnshop, Wanchai, ing him the appoint-Koo, the League Commission's Chinese Assessor, to enter Man- were entered by William Howells, a private of the South Wales Bor- ment of High Adviser-churia, on the grounds of the Hindenburg has been re-elected with a com-derers, when he appeared before ship to the Chinese Gov-"non-existence of diplomatic re-
Mr. Schofield in the Central ernment.
lations between China and the fortable majority.
Sir Robert and Lady' It is stated that the Chinese Ho Tung and Miss Irene Foreign Minister refused to re- ceive the message and instruct Ho Tung left for Europe ed the cable office to notify the
the sender to this effect. and England on P. & O. s.s. Corfu on Saturday.
Some Liveliness.
main still to be counted,
80
A number of clashes between lindenburg is, therefore, assur- Communists and Nazis occurred ed of an absolute majority. during the night preceding the opening of the polling booths for the Presidential Election. One Communist was shot dead, Two hundred arrests were made, but the majority were subsequently relensed.
Quiet Polls.
Polling opened in dull wea- ther, which was favourable to a heavy poll, as many people aban- doned plans to spend the day in the country. As the morning wore on the only evidence that a vital clection was progressing number of the unusual people in the streets, which were littered with election pamphlets and polling tickets.
Wis
Another million of votes re-
SCATHING DENUNCIATION.
Mr. J. R. Clynes
Speaks Out.
LEAGUE & FAR EAST CRISIS.
London, Yesterday.
Police Court this morning.
"Pinched It."
His Worship queried the se- Hindenburg Goes to Bed. cond charge, and Sub-Inspector Hindenburg does not yet know w. R. Chester-Woods, for the that he has been elected, as he prosecution, explained that, after refused to stay up to learn the the defendant was cautioned, he result which is to be given to was asked to say how he came to-morrow morning at to possess the clock. He would him
only reply, "I pinched it." Polling Figures. Polling figures counted up to 10 p.m. were:-
Hindenburg. Hitler
7 o'clock,
Thaelmann
18,526,100.
12,541,200 3,486,000
19,367,688 13,419,603 3,705,898
Reuter.
Found Asleep.
Outlining the case, Sub-Insp. Chester-Woods said that in the evening of April 7, the Chinese Oficial final figures will not be caretaker of No. 153, The Peak, Un-which is temporarily unoccupied, till to-morrow. known
went on his usual rounds and official figures are:-
saw that everything was locked Hindenburg
up and safe. The next morning Hitler
he telephoned to Mount Gough Thaelmann
Police Station, as a result of which Police went to the house, and on going up to the first floor found Howells asleep on a bed. When questioned, defendant told the Police how he had gained en-i trance. He took off his hat and boots in the garden, and climbed a drainpipe to the first floor. with a hammer he broke two planes of glass.
CANTON'S FLYING HEROES.
Remains Brought Back For Interment.
Canton, Yesterday. The interment of the remains of
A denunciation of the two gallant Cantonese aviatore, those countries which,Fight-Captain Wong while condemning the and Flight-Lieutenant Chao Po-min, cautioned, Sub-Insp
earlier.
of
LOST AT SEA.
French Schooner Founders.
IN. BAY OF BISCAY
(Reuter's Special Service).
Paris, Yesterday. The
two discovery of empty lifeboats floating 180 miles off Brest has aroused grave fears for the fate of 21 seamen, part of the crew of the --French schooner "Rouzic" which sank in a storm in the Bay of Biscay ́yesterday.
The British steamers "Armerata" and "Deerpool" picked up eight survivors, but so far there is no riewB of the remainder.
A
Manchukuo Government."
It is also reported that Geneva was officially informed and a vigorous protest was lodged with Tokyo, declaring that the Japan
PIRACY RAMPANT ON SOOCHOW CREEK
MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN HELD FOR RANSOM
MUCH LOOT TAKEN
WELL ORGANISED WITH OFFICES AT WUSIEH AND ELSEWHERE.
(Reuter's Pacific Service.)
Shanghai, To-day. Money, jewellery and merchandise, valued at $600,000, has been stolen by Taihu Lake pirates in an unprecedented storm of piracy which has gwept Over Soochow Creek and other waterways near Shanghai in the past six weeks, according to an unofficial survey.:
In addition to loot, the marauders have taken more than a score of persons, including children, and are holding them for ransom.
ese Government should be re-
It is reported that all Govern- capitulated to pirates without garded as the real author of the message and should be held re- mental authority on these water-firing a shot.
So well organised are the pfr. sponsible for any hindrance plac ways has broken down, and con-ates, at the present time, that ed in the way of the Commission sequently the conditions now pre- they openly conduct offices at in performing the task entrusted vailing are the worst in living Wusieh and other inland towns to them by the League.
to facilitate the sale of stolen On Wednesday, Chinese mer-property and the payment of chants, who had chartered a ransom. boat-train, lost $300,000 in trea- The pirates are said to have
merchandise, gure and
when representatives in Shanghai who their bodyguards, armed with inform them of the movements automatics and machineguns, of possible victims.
NAVAL RELIEFS ARRIVE.
རྒྱུད་
H.M.S. Vindictive Enters Harbour.
450 RATINGS.
H.M.S. Vindictive (Captain E. McC. W. Lawrie, D.S.O.), with re-! liefs on board for H.M.S. Medway' and
memory
POLICE RESERVE.
Orders for the Current
Week.
submarines, arrived from|| Orders issued by the Hon. Mr. Home yesterday morning, but on T. H. King, Inspector-General of account of heavy fog was unable Police, are as under:-
Chinese Company.
Headquarters, 17; Queen's Road Central on Thursday, April 14 at 6.80 p.m.
Defendu Class. The weekly de- fendu class will meet on Thursday, April 14 at 5.30 p.m. in the gymnasium at Central Police Sta- tion.
ment:
MENINGITIS IN CANTON,
Entering the premises, he
to enter the harbour until 8.80 this made a thorough search for pro-
morning, when she went alongside Training Course Part II-All the Medway at the No. 2 buoy in recruits will attend at the Chinese
An epidemic of meningitis has perty, but being, unable to find
the Naval anchorage. anything to steal, fell off to
Company's Headquarters, on Tues appeared in Canton since the begin- Reliefs brought to Hong Kong by day, April 12 at 5.30 pm. for inning of the week. Four students sleep, and was thus found by the
U.S. NATIONAL ECONOMY Yuk-chuen caretaker. After defendant was
the Vindictive number over 450 struction.
of the Chi Hang School were report- Chester-
PROGRAMME. ·
ratings who boarded her at Porta- Training Course-Part I.-A" ed to have contracted this dreadful to Victoria Woods proceeded
mouth, when she left on February recruits of the Chinese Company disease. Several cases have also 16. In addition to the men for the will attend Central Police Station occurred amongst the convicts in Sino Japanese dispute, will take place at the local Air Force Barracks on Saturday afternoon, In
(Reuter's Special Service.).
China Station, the Vindictive took for Squad Drill on Thursday, April prison, reports the Police Depart- Cemetery in the Shaho suburb, ac-and searched Howells' kit.
Washington, Yesterday. his Bible he found two pawn supplied arms to the
cording to the Canton Daily Sun.
national
pro- out with her a new crew for H.MS. 14 at 5.30 p.m. economy tickets, one relating to the
N.C.08. Class-All Ñ.C.Os will
The Bureau of Health is adopting combatants was made
The coffin containing the clock, and the other to an Army gramme, designed to save be- Triad, Senior Oficer's ship on the
drastic precautionary to-day by Mr. Clynes mains
Friday, April 16 at 4 measure to check the disease from boots, but tween one hundred and sixty and Persian Gulf. The relieved crew attend the Chinese Company's Head- the most of Lieutenant Choo was quilt and a pair of
Canton speaking at Portsmouth. brought back to
from they did not proceed against two hundred and ten million of the Triad were taken on board quarters on
dollars, has been tentatively the Vindictive as far as Colombo, p.m. for instruction under Mr. spreading in the city.
It is reported that the Bureau pro- He expressed the Shanghai by steamer two days ago him, with the latter
agreed upon between President where they were transferred to Paterson, P.P.T.S.
Indian Company.
poses to enforce quarantine regula- The Hammer.
Hoover and the Economy Com-HM.3. Berwick for passage Home. The reliefs for the submarines opinion, that it would and that conveying the body
Training Course-Part 1-All tions, requiring that steamers ar Regarding the hammer, the mittee of the House of Represen have been better if the Cant. Wong reached here five days
prosecuting officer told his Wor- tatives. They have been confer- are being disembarked during to- members who have not passed Part riving from Macao should undergo The day and those for H.M.S. Medway II of Training Course should at- a strict examination.-Centon Daily League had given a These two gallant aviators were ship that Howells had told the ring at the White House.
Chinese Company's 'Sun. straighter talk to the killed in action in Shanghai in an Police that he picked it up from figures do not include saving by on Wednesday, after which the tend at the
consolidation of Government ac-Vindictive will go into dock. She air battle fought with Japanese the Chinese Permanent Ceme- tivities or reductions in appra-sails for Home on April 21 with the aggressor than some planes, which took place in the tery, where he had slept on
priations. statesmen thought nearly part of the recent Sino- Thursday night, after having set
out for a walk to Aberdeen. cessary. He hoped that Japanese conflict. the permanent body of
Previous Conviction. the League would agree received his aviation training in A previous conviction against The saddest part of the the defendant, showed that he that, in future, no ten- America. derness should be shown agedy is the fact that the late had served four weeks, about two Captain leaves hehind a young months ago, in connection with to any wrongdoer when wife whom he married less than a burglary also on the Peak. the League was satisfied month before he sacrificed his life
Lieut. Crewe-Read, S.W.A., for the country. that wrong had been
Lieutenant Chao Po-mlu aged 22 in reply to his Worship, said: WAS a graduate of the Aviation "He had one conviction in March, done. Reuter.
School in Canton. Before he was 1929, by District Court Martial ÅÏ19}}}|30|53||24|1113192transferred to Nanking, he served for desertion, and was sentenced in the local air force as senior flying to detention. Nothing else, your officer of the 8th squadron.
DE VALERA'S ADVICE TO BRITISH STATESMEN,
London, Yesterday. Ireland is not a British colony. She la one of the oldest nations in the world, with all rights to nationhood. British statesmen must abandon their insane ambition to dominate the Irish.
Thus said Mr. De Valera in a speech at Ennis to-day to a crowd of six thousand, and so' disposed of any hope of a change of his attitude Reu-
His Young Widow. Capt. Wong Yuk-chuen aged 28
TRESPASSER CAUTIONED,
"It does not seem to be a serious case; I will caution you," said Mr.
Worship.
The Magistrate (to Howells); Anything you wish to say, defendant?"
Defendant: "No, Sir." Replying to another question Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy by his Worship, the Officer ascer this morning, when a Chinese tained from defendant that his assistant hawker, Chin Yuen service finishes in 1985. loong, was charged, with trespass-
Ing in Shamehaipo Police Station
* The Bentence.
on Saturday afternoon. Defendant His Worship passed sentence was found in the passage way, out as follows: (a) three months" side the calls, and was talking to hard labour, (b) one month's three men in one of the cells. On hard labour, and (c) $20 or- m being questioned he said he came default two weeks, hard labour. to speak to one of the prisonerar All terms to run consecut
-EAST WINDS AND CLOUDY.
The Royal Observatory's. re- port issued to-day states:-
The anti-cyclone le moving Eastwards, and is now central near Tokyo..
The depression remains over Tongking.
Forecast:--East winds, mo- derate, cloudy, fog, mist, or light rain.
Rainfall.
For the 24 hours ending at. 10 a. to-day-nil. Total since January 1487 Inches against an average of 7,78 inches defcit 2.91 inches.
Temperature. Hong Kong.
Macao Prat Mai
Foot
Amoy
Island
relieved crews and a few ratings from H.M.S. Tamar and other ships of the station who have completed terms of service bere.
DEATH OF CHINESE POLICE SERGEANT.
Sgt. Hon Pan.
TWENTY ONE YEARS' MERITORIOUS SERVICE.
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The Hong Kong Police Force has sustained a great loss in the death of Sergeant Hon Pan, which occur- red in Liu Pa Village, Tung Kun District, yesterday Deceased was on three weeks extended sick leave, and was to have returned to duty to-day.
Hoa Pan Joined the Force on September 28, 1911, at the age of twenty years, and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant In February, 1929. He was regarded as one of the most intelligent members of the Chinese contingent, and was for time connected with the Regis Itracy, in
He leaven's wife, and four young| Children to survive Kia, loun
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