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LINDBERGH
MA HAS ARMY OF 55,000.
Plans for Attack
Along C.E.R.
MOVING SOUTH FROM KOSHAN.
Japanese Air Bombing.
Harbin, To-day. General Ma Chan-shan is collect. ing a tremendous army. His aero- planes are dropping leaflets appeal- ing for help, over a wide area and tally reinforcements are flocking. to his banner.
The strength of his army has grown from 40,000 to 06,000 in the last few days, and he is reported to have tanks, aeroplanes, and anti- aircraft guns and to be moving
southward from Koshan. It is re- ported that he has occupied all CR. between Tienteaokang and
places on the western branch of the
Taltslhar.
Preparations are being made here to despatch a large force of
C.E.R.
-Reuter.
FINAL EDITION.
China Mail
No. 28,106
EIGHTY - EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932.
BABY'S
HONG KONG ELEVEN SAIL TO-MORROW
SKELETON
CAPTAIN ERIC MITCHELL CONFIDENT
SHANGHAI'S GROUND ADVANTAGE DISCOUNTED BY LACK OF PRACTICE.
WINNING THE TOSS VITAL
EVACUATION OF SHANGHAI,
Resolutions of Assembly.
LIKELY TO ENSURE FULL- WITHDRAWAL SOON.”. Shanghai Committee's
Decision.
Geneva, Yesterday, As a result of the Shanghai Com-i mittee's decision, the League As- sembly, through a Committee of 19, has issued a report expressing
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
FOUND
DU
OP
NEAR HOME.
SKULL FRACTURED
AMERICAN CONSUL'S
REGRET. Dastardly Affair."
When interviewed by a Chine Mail representative, this morn- Ing withr egard to the death of the Lindburgha' baby, Mr. John R. Putman, United States Con- sul, expressed regret, remark- ing that the news would be deeply felt by Americans every-
the opinion that the Assembly's re-where, as Colonel and Mrs. solutions, aiming at a defimite cessation of hostilities and the The sixteenth Hong Kong cricket eleven to withdrawal of the Japanese forces, now in process of execution, are visit Shanghai will sail by the President Jefferson likely to ensure a complete with at 2 a.m. to-morrow to take part in the thirty-drawal shortly. second match in the Interport series. Hong Kong mittee did not cool called the Com have won 15, Shanghai 14 and 2 have been drawn.
SHANGHAI SITUATION.
Nanking, To-day.
Chinese official sources state that there are no prospects of hold-
ing a Round Table Conference fu Shanghai until the Japanese troops
Lindbergh were very popular and nationally known: figures. He declined, however, to make.. any statement on the affair, which he characterised as dastardly, except to say that he hoped that action would be taken to make it impossible for Buch a thing to occur again.
ESTATE OF EDGAR
WALLACE
Deficit of $2,089 Shown
in Hollywood.
AMERICA SHOCKED BY DEATH
FOUND IN LONELY BRUSH NEAR HOPEWELL
FIRST NEWS SINCE KIDNAPPING
ON MARCH
The Lindbergh Baby is dead.
The skeleton was found in a section of brush near the home of the parents, Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh,
The discovery gave the first news of the baby since the kidnapping on March 1, and the tragic news has stunned the whole United States. The nation-wide indignation since the kidnapping has developed into a public outcry against the police | administration and millions of citizens urging the authorities to take strong and determined action.
As regards Manchuris, the
examine the situation pending re- "It is the best balanced side which has been sent ccipt of the report of the Commis Manchukuo and Japanese troops to Shanghai since the War," said Mr. E. J. R. Mit-ion of Enquiry-Reuter along the western branch of the chell, captain of the Hong Kong cricket eleven, in Japanese planes this morning the course of an interview with the "China Mail.” bombed Tientsaokang, dropping "We have an excellent chance of winning what eighteen bombs, while machine promises to be a close encounter. Shanghai have
There was a hole just above the forehead and gunners in the planes are reported to have inflicted heavy casualties. the advantage of playing on their own ground, but Hong Kong has the advantage of a whole season
death was caused by a compound fracture of the behind them. The Shanghai selectors will face the withdrawn from Manchuria
The reaction of Col Lindbergh is anxiously await- problem of choosing a team on statistics rather Although Japanese troops are
ed as he has intimated that he will leave the United than on actual form, as the Shanghai cricket sea- being withdraw Shanghai.
States and establish his residence in Fraz son is just commencing. The side that wins the toss been agreed on this condition, it
Mrs. Lindbergh, daughter of the late A deficit of $3,089 (Gold) is secures an advantage which will probably decide is only a partial settlement of the
Sino-Japanese conflict.
shown in the estate bare of the late Morrow, collapsed a few weeks ago. She is exp the fate of the game, and here it is that I hope to
As long as Japanese troops oc- Mr. Edgar Wallace, according to the ing a second baby shortly. achieve some degree of success. I am very op-cupy Chinese territory, the Chin Public Administrator, the largest The baby, blue-eyed, and like his father, blond timistic regarding Hong Kong's chances and firm-se Government cannot negotiale item of expense being an elasřate
with Japan regarding any political bronze coffin.-Reuter's American haired, was aged 20 months when kidnapped, Na
Sérvice.
ed Charles Augustus Lindbergh Junior (the name believe that we have the right men to bring back asas-Reuters Pari Service the Hong Kong flag.'
Capt. Eva, of S, Armend Build- The return of notifiable diseases of his father, he was 2 ft. 9 in. in height, and was Mr. Mitchell has not yet received information regarding the composition of the Shanghai eleven, but thinks that this is due tongs, Kowloon, has reported to the which had been notified as having the idol of the nation.
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES.
Position in Relation to Income Tax.
London, Yesterday.
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, announced
The Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons to-day that the Committee to inquire into the present position of Co-operative So- cieties in relation to income tax and to report whether any modifica the fact that rain has greatly handicapped the northern selection tion of the position is desirable, committee. No news has been received of Pat Madar being able would consist of Mr. W. Raeburn, to play, but no news is good news in his case. The question of com K.C. as Chairman, Sir Geoffrey Cor- mencing the Interport game on Thursday has not yet been decided bett, of Indian Civil Service, and as no reply has yet been received from Shanghai, Mr. H. Hill, President. of the In- stitute of Chartered Accountants.-
British Wireless Service.
(Notes on Interport Cricket are published on Page 4.)
DARTMOOR MUTINY TRIAL ENDS
CONVICTS FOUND GUILTY OF MALICIOUS DAMAGE
SENTENCES TO BE PASSED ON ACCUSED TO-DAY,
DON'T WASTE WATER,
Into the Railway Zone.
and cessation, of hostilities has
ELABORATE BRONZE COMER.
Hollywood, Yesterday,
Police the loss of a stalk mascot occurred in the Colony, for the 24)
from the front of his motor car, hours ending May 12, show one which was parked outside his case, each of meningitis, enteric
fever and diphtheria.
house.
PIRACY IN CHINESE WATERS
NEED FOR WORLD SENSATIONAL ATTACK
ON CARGO BOAT NEAR SAMUN
CO-OPERATION.
Britain Should Lead Reconstruction.
SIR ERIC GEDDES' APPEAL.
London, Yesterday.
The need for International co- operation as essential to a world trade revival was strongly urged at
CARGO LOOTED NOBODY KIDNAPPED
sensational act of
a company meeting today by sir Chinese waters, Eric Geddes, Chairman of the revolvers and
revealed in a report Dunlop Rubber Company
He insisted that the time for half
EIGHT FOUND NOT GUILTY Found guilty of nialicious damage, 21 convicts charged in connection with the mutiny at Dart moor, the convict prison at Princetown, Devon, on January 25, will be sentenced by Mr. Justice Finlay to-day Eight were found not guilty and some disculties were solv have been recommended for leniency.
measures was past, and that some of the traditional policies Unless outstanding
pean diplomacy must
future, the only Hapse in maj
Volving the
To day's sentences will conclude this long paraly drawn-out trial of the 80 convicts wh
to have been the ring
during the
building
rs of the
se of
sed to the
near Samun, in Armed with rifles,
At the time of the kidnapping, the child was suffering from a slight illness and Mrs. Lindbergh broadcast a special diet in the hope that the kid- nappers might care for the baby.
HAMMERED TO DEATH?
The baby's skull was fractured on the left side the fracture extending from the top to a spot just behind the left ear.
The second blow had been dealt on the right side, just at the back of right ear..
The latter blow left a hole half an inch in dia meter. It was as if some adult person had held the baby tightly in his arms, and deliberately ham. mered the head for the purpose of causing ing death.
The teeth, cranial and other bone formation have confirmed identii
Another
caused by thu
is that the the body out of
ture
rear
Judg child boat, is napping to-day PA
was exiling be
amun, they' boat, on
men.
ther
the state of the skel
murdered soon after
ENOTAT
PEWELL