NAIDU HITS
CENTURY
Indian Eleven in Good Form,
RAIN HINDERS COUNTY- MATCHES
Kent Overwhelm Essex
GLAMORGAN'S
SURPRISE.
London, Yesterday.
Heavy rain in England apolledi the County cricket championships ) played here to-day, two matches- une at Manchester Lancashire v. Surrey), and the other at Chester- field Derbyshire v. Yorkshire)! not being played. Two champion- ; ship matches were decided, Glamor-l gan and Kent gaining victories.
The All-India cricket eleven, who are doing exceptionally well in theiri
between the Indians and England.
dashing knock for 118.
whom they dismissed for 101, J.
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China Mail
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
No. 28,116
HONG KONG,
SENSATIONAL
RAID ON DOPE FACTORY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1932, PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
BOMBAY MILLS RESUME
Feeling Still High in the City.
SHOPS AND MARKETS SALL CLOSED
HUGE MORPHINE PLANT Trouble Over An
IN SHANGHAI
DRUGS WORTH 50,000 TAELS CONFISCATED.
MYSTERY OF SECRET PROCESS
*
Idol.
London, Yesterday.
The Hall Mark of Superlative Product
MANY HONOURS FOR PREMIER'S PLEA FOR
MISS EARHART
Prince of Wales' Warm Congratulation.
AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY'
INVITATION
U.S. Senate to Give D.F.C. Award.
London, Yesterday. Bombay messages state that al- Misa Amelia Earheart (Mrs. though feeling is running high Putnam), was received by the after the recent communal riots the Prince of Wales in his private
He general position in the city con-rooms to-day,
warmly tinues to improve.
congratulated her on her achieve- All, mills are now working alment and talked for half an though some with reduced numbers, hour with her. Retail shops are open but wholesale shops and markets are still closed owing to a dispute over an idol British Wireless Service
GEORGES PHILIPAR
DISASTER
53 MISSING.
SHPASSENGERS NO BRITISH
INCLUDED
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Yesterday. The Shanghai Municipal Police uncovered to- tour, played a drawn game with the day a huge morphine manufacturing plant, with Marylebone C.C. at Lord's, which drugs valued at 50,000 taels and seized eight Chin- will be the venue of the Test match ese. One Japanese has also been arrested. This Against the M.C.C., the tourists followed a sudden raid by the narcotic squad of the scored 228 in their innings, C. K. Municipal Police upon a building in the Inter- Naidu being undefeated with "national Settlement, where huge tubs chemicals, Lowly-placed Glamorgan guided believed to hold a secret manufacturing process, first innings victory from Warwick, were discovered and which are now being analysed.
Famous Journalist. Mercer being in fine form with the Costly chemical apparatus and, Interesting Disclosures,
Among the Lost. ball, capturing six wickets for 34 laboratory equipment were in- The secret of manufacturing runs. Glamorgun though, could atalled in the building, which was refined morphine suitable for sale
Paris, Yesterday, has baffled scientists but the only collect 112 against the bowling nothing less than a drug-making Folice expect interesting dis- The French shipping line, Mes- of Paine, who took seven wickets for
centre of considerable size.
closures after the analysis. They sageries Maritimes the owners Playing at home, Cambridge The authorities believe they believe that probably not more of the ill-fated Gorges Philip- thave unearthed one of the big- than three chemists in the Far par, has issued a list of 68 per- University gained an overwhelming! victory over Middlesex whom they gest drug manufacturing centres East are able to carry out the sons accounted missing in the defented by an innings and ten in China, the possible source of process successfully, the Japan- Philippar disaster, which is con-
A useful century by D. R. considerable morphine and other ese who was arrested being one sidered final, Wilcox enabled Cambridge to total narcotics finding their way into of those with whom the secret The list includes M. Albert Londres, the famous French jour- Middlesex could only many parts of the Orient, and rests. scure 291 in two knocka, K. Farnes Outrivalling the huge opium sei- The Police feel certain that nalist and correspondent of "Le they have located the only scien- Matin" (which he was represent- taking five wickets for 22 in their zure in Canton Road in 1925.
When the raiding squad rush. tific drug manufacturing plant in ing in the Far East). There are Franked into the building they found China operating in Shanghai for no British passengers included in Brilliant batting by
all the inmates feverishly en- considerable period.
the list. Reuter. Woolley and Ames, who scored 153 runs between them, and splendid aged in the manufacturing pro- cess. The air was laden with chemical fumes and the chemical
45.
runs.
301 runs.
first innings.
bowling by "Tich" Freeman (he took. 11 wickets for 193 runa) was workers were warned by the Police largely responsible for Kent's eight
to abstain from smoking because wicket victory over Essex at Grave the atmosphere was charged with highly volatile gases and inflam-
send.
Although they scored 258, to mabie liquide exposed to all parts which Willis Walker contributed 92, of the laboratory, which contain- Notts were unable to gain first in- nings points from Sussex, at Hove, ed vats full of chemicals and Sussex, at the end of play, were 144 other impedimenta, and large runs in arrears, with only four quantities of crude morphine, which is understood to have
wickets in hand.
At Lord's, the match between the come from Chungking, where it
is made from opium by a process
All-India team and the M.C.C. was discovered by a German chemist. left drawn. A splendid effort by C. K. Naidu (he scored 118 not out) enabled the Indians to compile, a useful 228, to which Marylebone re- plied with 200 for seven wickets. Repter.
Results, as cabled by Reuter, are as follows:-
(Continued on Page 4)
NANKING HONOURS · SIR
· ROBERT HO" "TUNG
3.
First-Class Adviser To
The Government
London, Yesterday.
Sir Robert Ho Tung has
telegraphed his acceptance of an official offer by the Nanking Government to become First Class Adviser to the Chinese' Government,
A luncheon is being, given in. his honour by the, Chinese de legation on Friday-Retter
(Sir Robert was invited to
HIGH HOPES FOR
OTTAWA
Canadian Premier Optimistic.
-
STAGE SET FOR
OTTAWA CONFERENCE
QUESTION OF MIGRA-
TION "ESSENTIAL
SIR JOHN GILMOUR TO BE A DELEGATE
The Royal Aeronautical So- clety has invited Miss Earheart
May 26, which she will be the
EMPIRE UNITY
STIRRING SPEECH FROM LOSSIEMOUTH
BUOYANT HOPES FOR THE OTTAWA
CONFERENCE.
FREER TRADE CONDITIONS
London, Yesterday.
No greater calamity could befall the world'» to attend its annual dinner on than for the British Empire to lose the grip which kept it together, declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in an Empire Day message broadcast from Lossiemouth to-day.
first woman to attend. — Reuter.
Washington, Yesterday,
It is announced that the Sen- ate paced without debate a re solution awarding Miss Earheart The great obstacle to world prosperity was the Distinguished Flying Cross in recognition of her Atlantic nationalism removed from its proper sphere of cul- flight. Reuter's American Ser-tural and political liberty, and made the justifica- vice.
[Miss Earheart flow the Atlantion for restrictions of international trade.
tic, from Harbour Grace, New- foundland to Ireland, on Satur-
tic.]
Mr. MacDonald indicted "their knowing the industrial condi
炸
day last in 19 hours. She had a thoughtless liberality in politics," tions and policies in the various forced landing one mile from Lon-the "flabby misinterpretations of scheme to create freer trade con- Dominions in order to advise a donderry, due to a leakage in her petrol tank. Miss Earheart is democracy," and "the methods ditions over a vast area of the the first aviatrix to fly the Atlan-which regard treaties as scraps world.
of paper to be altered or ended as In that connection the British suits between either party," delegation were going to Ottawa after studying with painstaking Expressing buoyant hopes of care and thoroughness, not before the chicos de forthcoming devoted, every aspect of Imper- Otawa Conference, he expressed ial Preference as a means of pro- the opinion that it would be of moting Imperial unity, increas little assistance uttering emptying the volume of Imperial trade |slogans of resounding resonance, (and employing Imperial labour.----
but the keystone of success lay Reuter.
CRISIS DEVELOPS IN NORTH Operations Reach a Huge Scale.
HEAVY FIRING. HEARD
ALL NIGHT
Insurgents Destroy Rail Tracks.
men
Hopes of Success.
GERMANS WELCOME- DORNIER DO-X
Back After 18 Months Absence,
OFFICIAL RECEPTION IN BERLIN
Successful Crossing of Atlantic.
Berlin, Yesterday, * After 18 months' absence in
GERMAN SHIPPING FINANCES
Companies' Capital to
··Be Written Down.
Harbin, Yesterday. General Honjjo arrived to-day from Mukden to direct the opera- tions in North Manchuria, which
DECISION BY, TWO OF bave assumed a tremendous scale. General Honjo has columns
THE BIGGEST LINES. rapidly approaching the Russian frontiers, while the Chinese troops
Shareholders Expected are still bothering his Harbin
To Agree garrison., Heavy firing was audi- ble here all night as the Japan- ese are engaging a large force of
Berlin, Yesterday. General Ma Chan-shan's
The Directors of the North Ger- the Hamburg twenty-five kilometres west of the United States, the German man Lloyd and" Harbin, where the insurgents flying boat Dornier Do-X landed Amerika Lines have decided to re- have torn up the railway tracks. at Lake Mueggel, near Berlin, at commend at their forthcoming gen-
"Planes Active,
6.80 p.nl. to-day in the presence eral meeting that the shareholders Japanese planes have been of a huge and enthusiastic crowd, write down the Companies capital very active, despite heavy rain An official welcome was accord-by a proportion of 8 to 1. and bad visibility. Communica ed to the officers, and members The North German Lloyd will tions between Barbin and Tsitsi- of the crew by the Mayor of Ber-write off 140,000,000 marks and the har have been cut.
lin and a representative of the Hamburg Amerika 154,000,000
marks. London, Yesterday. -To-day considerable Japanese the Government. -- Reuter.
It is understood that 24,000,000 The Acting Premier, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, reinforcements were sent west-
Safe Crossing
marka for each Company will be wards, and Japanese sources re stated in the House of Commons to-day that the port that the Chinese are retreat Southampton Water on May 28, There is little doubt that share- The Dornier Do-X arrived at transferred to a new reserve fund. British delegation to the Ottawa Conference would ing after heavy engagement. include the Minister of Agriculture, Sir John and it is hoped that communica- having left Newfoundland at holders will accept, the recommenda-
tion with Taitaihar will soon beam. on Saturday, May 21. She tons. Reuter, Gilmour. Until it was possible to estimate the resumed. However, other sources had a successful crossing via the In an Empire Day message read length of the present Parliamentary session and of are not so optimistic. Azores, and soon after arrival in There is no news to-day from England flew back to Germany vis at the Canadian Chamber of Com the Lausanne Conference it was impossible to say the Japanese columns advancing Vigo and Lake Constance. merce luncheon in London to-day, the Premier of Canada, Mr. Richard whether two or three of the Ministers given in the along the eastern branch of the
"One English. Passenger. Bennett, said: "In a few months earlier list would be available,
London, Yesterday.
The only passengers aboard, the flying boat-DO-X- when inhël :left| Calabot to-day on the last stage of her return flight from Germany, were Dr. Dornier and his daughter and Majora Gol
MUTUAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Revival of Trade in the Empire.
London, Yesterday.
at Ottawa will form part of our his-
the Imperial Economic Conférence ? The Dominions Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas, tory and, I am convinced, a memor assured Members that the question of migration able part.
as an essential element of Imperial Economic Co-
Determination is evident through-
out the Empire to utilise this op operation would not be overlooked 1 the United portunity to place our economic Kingdom Delegation at Ottawa. Mr. Thomas stat- take the above post In April,relations on a mutually advantage
ous and enduring basis in the ed that he had now received the agenda of the Con- assurance that before, another Em- ference from the Canadian Government. ——– British piro Day arrives definite action will Wireless Service.
and intimated that he would do
so only on the condition that it'
was honorary. He was the principal mover Fof
Round Table Conference of the various military, leaders of. Chins
Inter
be taken which will
materially and Ind
the
Brillant Career.
Gilmour D
Chinese Eastern Railway towards the Russian frontier or along the Sungari River Renter
JAPANESE OVERSEAS MINISTRY
Post Accep
land, Chairman of the Brit Gliding Associa
DOS
reached Berlin this evening-Bri tial Wireless Bervice,
AUTOGYRO TO AID: TRAFFIC CONTROL
System to be by Day
psom Downs.
point of vantage observers will.
fighting