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EIGHTY - EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1932.
MANCHURIAN
CUSTOMS.
END OF FAMINE IN SIGHT.
Question of Security of But Flood Victims Still
Service Loans.
BRITAIN IS WATCHING.
No Reason To Believe Foreign Obligations Are Impaired.
in Sorry Plight.
LAST MOMENTS OF
ALBERT LONDRES.
Stayed on Blazing Liner to Save Manuscripts.
HIS BEST WORK.
Coast Search For Likely Survivors.
Shanghai, June 12. "Conditions in North Kiangsu are still quite bad in certain places,” stated Sir John Hope Simpson
Parls, May 24, London, To-day.. yesterday upon his return from ten
The Italian Government has been Asked by Mr. A. M. Samuel, days tour of North Kiangsu and M.P., in the House of Commons, the Grand Canal region. "But the appealed to by the Messageries if he had any information as to wheat crop is being garnered, and Maritimes Company to search the
Somali coast for possible survivorsį whether the Japanese Govern-the end of the faming conditions is of the Georges Philippar, but it is ment was arranging that a pro- portionate amount of the Man-in sight. Within ten days there considered unlikely that any of the 63 missing have succeeded in churian Customs, required for will be sufficient food."
Service Loans raised in Great Sir John made inspections of reaching safety.
One of the most notable among
The Arst batch of survivors, 15 Britain by the Chinese Govern-many houses in several villages. ment, be remitted to those In almost every
house there was in number, is due at Marseilles next Saturday in the P. & 0. liner, hitherto responsible for the tol- some little reserve of food. But! Comorin. lection and service, Captain R. A. for the past several weeks the: Eden, Under-Secretary for For-people have been mixing 25 per eign Affairs, replied that his cent. of fuller's earth with the bran the missing is M. Albert Londres, latest information was that the which has been all the food that has who is regarded as one of the best revenue collected at three of the been available. The fuller's earth descriptive writers in France. six Customs Stations in Man-has been given by a philanthropic churia was being remitted nor-society in Chinkiang. It has served mally to Shanghai, and that at to fill the bodies of hungry people the other three Stations the sur- and to give illusion that hunger has plus revenue was being paid in been appeased. to a special suspense account.
"The loss of farm animals either
It is feared that he was burn-
ed to death through having re- mained aboard trying to save the manuscript of his report on China, which he regarded as the best work he had ever written. This is the theory of M. Albert
The British Government, he from drowning or starvation is be- Lang-Willar, a great friend, who said, was giving very careful at-ing seriously felt," went on Sir was one of the last persons to see tention to the question of foreign John. "I saw in several places M. Londres alive. obligations secured on the Chin-women yoked with men to thei
His Mother. ese Customs revenue.
plough in the courageous attempt to In a message from Calro, M. Hitherto there had been no res-prepare the land for rice crops. The Lang-Willar describes how M. son to believe that their security determination of the people is such Londres dined with him and his was impaired. Reuter.
that if the year is anything like a wife on the balcony of their state- good one, 99 per cent, of the land, room.
Mr. Soong's Attack.
Peking, Yesterday.
4
will be able to grow rice successful-¦ Afterwards' he admitted that ly. The area at present under seed what he was looking forward to The Chinese Finance Minister, wheat proves that there was a most was to see his daughter Mr. T. V. Soong accused Japan larger reserve of seed than was at Marseilles, and his mother, whom of interfering with the integrity first thought.” -
he adored, at Vichy. He said
at
of the Chinese Maritime Customs "The dyke work haa been good-night to his friends only a in a forcible statement here to-magniãcently done. One section quarter of an hour before the day.
particularly, in which the Chinese alarm was given. "Few would take seriously the Foreign Famine Relief Committee When the fire broke out he could Japanese contention that the so-han responsibility, has given have escaped by jumping out of called Manchukuo authorities much trouble. In has twice had to the porthole of his cabin, but were acting independently of be rebuilt because of underground seasoned traveller as he was, he Japan when they interfered with springs weakening its foundations. never learned to swim. · · the Customs at Harbin, New Mud for this dyke had to be carried M. Londres's most famous work) chwang and Antung but at three miles. It is expected that was "The Road to Buenos Aires,” Dairen there is not even a sha-the whole of the Grand Canal dykes dealing with the white slave traffic. It has been translated into a num- dow of an excuse for Japan t will be finished in two weeks. escape the responsibility, since "Banditry continues to harry the ber of European languages. Dairen is leased territory under countryside. Outlaws in this part Japan's control, and interference of the country, however, are not ITALY AGREES WITH BRITAIN. with the Customs there consti-organised as elsewhere, and con- tuten a direct violation by Japan stitute less of a menace. Bandits of a solemn international agree-are nevertheless reaping the ment, he said.
(Continued from Page 1.)
British
peasants' wheat crop and otherwise American Delegates, and also Mr. Soong appealed to the living on the people. We are glad with Signor Grandi. world that "in a world already to have been able to accomplished Wireless Service. darkened by economic depres- as much as we have insview of all sion, the Powers surely cannot re-circumstances." gard indifferently the callous destruction of the solvency of four hundred million people. Reuter.
POLES & GERMANS CLASH.
Serious Incident in the "Corridor.”
$
'Berlin, June 10.
U.S. Delegate Absent.
Geneva, Yesterday, The British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon rushed back from frontier, in the Polish Corridor, Lausanne this morning to parti- The injured men and women were cipate in the resumption of the members of the local German choir meeting of English, French and and were practising for a forth-American delegates to the Disar- coming festival in a closed hailmament Conference which began which was invaded by the Infuriated yesterday. mob, whose tempers had been stir-sence of Mr. Hugh Gibson, head red up by an indignation meeting of the American delegation was
commented upon. against the festival held on the market square under the auspices of Polish officiala,
The unexplained ab
The participants in the discus sions were Sir John Simon, the Mar- ques of Londonderry, Mr. Harbert The Invaders, about 50 men, Samuel, M. Paul Boncour, M. assaulted the singers with sticks Massigli. M. De Jouvenel, Sena- and clubs, while their leaders
and Mr. Hugh Wilson.
Twenty-two Germans of both brandished revolvers and fired for Swanson, Mr. Norman Davis sexes were seriously injured to repeatedly into the melee. The The meeting lasted for 90 day by Folish mob in the police arrived on the scene only Polish frontier town of Kolmar, after the choir had taken to fight. situated close to the German As a result of the attack the
(Continued in Next. Column-) festival has been cancelled.
Endot
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