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Hong Kong. Tuesday, July 26, 1932.
Disarmament Conference Failure.
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1932.
News In Brief.“ JAPAN MAY BREAK PLEA OF INSANITY
The loss of a bathing costume
from, 8, Jordan Road; Kowloon, has been reported.
Six cases of cholera (one Import ed) and one case of diphtheria were notified to the Health Author-, ities yesterday.
POSTAL BLOCKADE.
China Won't Accept Manchukuo Stamps.
DIFFICULTIES GROW.
Dr. Frederick W. Roman, direc- Plans For Special Post
jtur of the Associated Forums, Ltd., Hof Los Angeles, is arriving here by
the J.C.J. str. Tjisadane.
Office Denied.
SOLE DEFENCE.
M. Doumer's Slayer On Trial For Life.
EXPERTS DISAGREE.
Paris, Yesterday.
The assassination of M. Paul Doumer. President of France. Shanghai, Yesterday. Jon May 26 had a sequel this after- The China Press quotes a Chinese 110on, when the trial of the assas- Knocked down by a motor cycle new agency as alleging that theja, Gorgouloff, a Russian, began. at Whitfield, near Ah King's slip-Japanese authorities are preparing The court was crowded with way, a woman, Chan Mul (85), was to establish a temporary post office distinguished" people and the sent to the Government Civil Hos-of their own in Shanghai, In the populace parked the streets. pital suffering-from injuries to her Japanese Consulate-General.
After the reading of the in-
head
This "Japanese Post Office," it dictment, Gorgouloff's counsel is declared, will collect and des-pointed out that while, three, ex- Lau Muk Tong and Teng Ching patch mail matte from Shanghai perts for the prosecution found were given four and two months' destined for Manchuria on behalf of the accused sane, three experts sentences respectively in Kowloon the Japanese residents.
for the defence were convinced Magistracy to-day for stealing 132. It is obvious that such a measure, that Gorgouloff was insane, razor blades from-Mr. J. Manners, if it was made effective, would go a The possibility of Gorgouloff's and later pawning them
long way towards nullifying the escaping the guillotine entirely postal blockade which the Nanking depends on the medical evidence, The Officer Commanding and Staff authorities have ordered to be es as the facts of the shooting are of the Garrison Children's Schools, tablished against Manchakuo. undisputed. — Reuter.. Hong Kong, announce that the If the mails are" actually handled annual prize giving will be held at by the Japanese Consulate, they the Hong Keng Volunteer Defence will be sent to Dairen aboard Japan-GEORGES PHILIPPAR’S
Corps Drill Hail at 10 a.m. to-ese steamers.
morrow.
+
. According to the same report, the measure has received the support of| Lo Pat, 18, was given 14 days" im- Japanese residents of Shanghai, prisonment this morning by Mr who have decided to urge Tokyo to Fraser in the Kowloon Court, for protest to the Chinese Government the theft of a pair of trousers and against the imposition of the block- a jacket alleged to have been taken Lade. from the Kowloon City Wharf. He had pawned the articles,
Japanese Denial.
LOSS A MYSTERY.
Tragedy Unexplained By Inquiry.
(Reuter's Special Service.)
Marseilles, Yesterday. The report of the Commission
Officials of the Japanese Consulate General this afternoon promptly Mr. P. A. Cox, assistant Oriental denied the Chinese allegation that
Canadian Pacific the Japanese authorities were pre- French liner Georges Philippar is.
of Inquiry into the loss of the
three possible causes for the dis-
manager for the Railway, arrived in Hong Kong by paring to eatabilah a temporary post the Empress of Canada to take up office for the trnagmission of mail to inconclusive. duties as acting Oriental manager and from Manchuria, although ar- The Commission considered is simple; the agreement is verbal during the absence of Mr. Allan rangements may be made to trans-nater, namely, a short circuit in. only and is not a sincere expression. Cameron, for four or five months.
mit the letters of Japanese, residents to Manchuria via Dairen aboard the electrical installation, an ac- The futility of the armaments race
The Polish Plenipotentiary and Japanese steamers. No formal post cidental, fire, or foul play. is apparent to all but the old fears, Baroness Barthel de Weydenthal office, however, has been planned.
It held that the evidence given distrust, ambitions and racial pre- left Shanghai by the Lloyd Triestino. The Chinese authorities, never:
by the witnesses cited gave no judices persist with the result that. Tevere for Europe on lang theless, discredit the Japanese more support to any one of those while some are prepared to adopt that's absence, M. Jean Krysinski, liable sources it is understood that
During Baron de Weyden- denial and contend that from re- theories than to the others. the only sane and reasonable course Councillor, will be in charge of the meeting will be held this after
noon by the Japanese Consular of-
leave.
Another respite is granted the others are apprehensive of security, Polish Legation. weary delegates to the Disarmament while some again harbour ambitions.!
Mr. Yonezawa, Chief of the En-discussion of the plan...
ficials and civilian bodies for the GERMANY WILL JOIN Conference, who after months of Because of the sad economic plight gineering Bureau of -the-Japanese
world and be-Communications Ministry, and 12 cent action of closing down the
A statement explaining the re
'CONFIDENCE' GROUP. futile debate have adjourned, the of the whole first stage of the Conference having cause of the greater enlightenment, other members of the Japanese de-Chinese post offices in the North
legation to the International Tele-eastern provinces and setting forth been completed. The results are of the public it was anticipated that graph and Radio Conference to be detailed measures for the transmis- in effect, negligible, and but for the diplomats, would drop the old order held in Madrid in September thission of foreign mails, and the en- noble-sounding but valueless motions of insincere, bargaining and really year, passed through Hong Kong on barge on incoming mails from areas passed at the end of the meeting, accomplish something to cure theN.Y.K. vessel Haruna Maru.
their way to Europe aboard, the in the military occupation of Japan
1 be
Embargo Announced.
The Japanese
government are
Nations Will Discuss European Problems.
Berlin, Yesterday. The German Government has.
Reuter.
in Manchuria will be issued this, the gathering has been a failure. depression. So far, despite the
afternoon from the Nanking Minis-accepted the invitation to join This cannot, of course, be admitted, number of Conferences and the ex- 3. LOST IN HARBOUR.
try of Communications.--Reuter. the Anglo-French" "Confidence hence the eloquent speeches of depressions of piety and good faith,
(Continued from Page 1.)
Pact," announced by Sir John legates during the past few days. settlement is as far distant as ever
Nanking. Yesterday. Simon in the House of Commons These efforts to "save face" are be and the millions, and tons of mil-
Mr. E. Cock refused to discuss this evening issued a
The Ministry of Communications on July 13. This provides a com- statement plete and candid exchange of coming 50 frequent that
alions, of unemployed all over the the amount involved in the wreck announcing the postal embargo on views on European questions, disillusioned
or the likelihood of salvage.. public refuses to globe endure in suffering and de-
Manchuria. No mails will be sent Other nations have been invit Mr. J. Jenner, coxswain of the to Manchuria and stampe issued el to subscribe, and this brings dcluded any further, and ispair.
Patience will soon be ex-Dock Company's launches, who there will not be recognised. All the total of adherents to eight, the general lack of accom-hausted and there have been signs was in charge of the Edith at the categories of mail bearing them including Italy, Belgium, Poland, plishment at Geneva is realised by that the breaking-point is almost us, together with nine members paid postage.
time of the accident, was picked will be regarded the same as un-Hungary and Yugo Slavia. Leven the layman. Of course, the reached. Germany may be the of the crew, by the s.3. Tin Yat. way is still open for further negotia-first to burst forth, and the con- It is learned from official fully responsible for all the incon tion, but without achievement the sequences of any outbreak would sources that when the Henry veniences thus caused, the state- position becomes
Keswick arrived, in the Harbour, ment concludes. Reuter: more hopeless be disastrous. The remedy lies in the Edith went out and tied up with the passing of time. The the hands of the statesmen and the alongside the Hirundo to assist in continual attempts at optimism on time-limit is nearly reached. docking, and to enable the Henry'
Keswick, to shorten the towing the part of the chairman of the
line. Disarmament Conference, Mr. Arthur Henderson, the British Labour Party leader, are difficult to understand and it is time that he came down to real facts, no matter Interviewed what their grimness.
NEW CLINIC OPENS AT SHATIN.
La d
1
JAPANESE VICTORY REPORTED.
SPORTING CIRCLES
LOSES FIGURE.
Mr. N. M. Bux Mourned By Many Friends.
Scarcely had the Edith been made secure alongside, when she Lost Town Retaken In Mr. N. M. Bux, one of the Indian
Manchuria.
SEVERE FIGHTING.
Harbin, Yesterday.
community's most popular members, passed away at the French Hospital yesterday. He was stricken with fever two weeks ago and, failed to recover.
was struck by the Tin Yat. She sank immediately. Lifebuoya were thrown overboard from the Will Care For 4,000 river steamer, a boat lowered, and the survivors of the crew of Poor Villagers. · on his return to London, Mr. Hen-
the tug picked up, these, later.
The sporting people of Hong being transferred to the Henry Japanese sources report a vic Kong will feel his hoss as he was derson explained that he would re-
The New Territories Bene Keswick..
tory over the Chinese Volunteers known for his interest in all games.. turn to Geneva in September, and volent Society opened
a clinic
Search for Missing.
at Shibtohotze yesterday and to He was a brother of a one-time then went on to say that while he last Sunday at Shatin, opposite Police launches searched the have recaptured the city which fell champion boxer, Iron Bux. Mr. would not, pretend to be satisted the railway station, in response neighbourhood of the wreck but into the hands of the anti-Manchu Bux has served on the committee of
to the appeals from the needy failed to locate the missing. kuo forces on Thursday, the Indian Recreation Club and wa with the results achieved during the
villagers.
An attempt is to be made this It is, however, authoritatively also a member of the Cralgengower first staza of the Conference it Arrangements have been made afternoon to recover the bodies. learned that the Volunteers have Cricket Club. He was manager, of would be wrong to say that the re- to have a nurse present at all An official Police report gives now re-occupied practically the the Victoria Printing Preis solution
opted contained nothing have been set as the days for quarter of a mile W.N.W. of the lenpo, the only places beyond extend their sympathies to Mrs,“ times. Tuesday and Saturday the position of the Edith as a whole of the C.E.E.. to the east of The many friends of the deceased of value. He re-affirmed his con- visits and treatments.
Central Fairway V
that still held by the Japanese be Bux and the six children who sur- viction that the cause of disurma. The nurse is to take care of The 8.9. Tin. Yat is owned by ing. Hailin, and Hestashotze. In vive him ment is bound to triumph.
It maternity cases and the dressing the Fuk On Steamship Company these two places, the Japanese
The Funeral de of minor wounds.
and is employed on the Hong sarrison is practically isolated. The funeral took place at the would be interesting to know oĽ
Such a charitable enterprise Kong-Canton run. She is com The Shihtohotze fighting lasted Mohammedan Cemetery Happy what the chairman bases his will be a great help to the 4,000 manded by Captain Perremit, and all day yesterday, but fually the valley, yesterday afternoon optimism as the facts do not justify people living at Shatin.
left the Hong Kong wharf for Japanese were able to carry out was attended by a large gathe his prediction. The resolution to
Canton at 10 p.m. but returned flanking movement which rolled of friends and relatives, which he refers is that carried on Mrs. Dregde, the wife of Sub- again after the collision for dam- up the defence lines of the
Inspector J. Dredge, living at Wan age inspection.
Volunteers and compelled then to Sepher, S. 4. Sapher, A E. Ram-
those present were, Messrs, S. A Saturday in which the nations, chal Police Station has reported the Stout Tüzbost
retreat, leaving eighty dead on the Jahn, A. G. Suffad, AH, Madar, excepting Russia and Germany, loss of a gold wrist watch, while The "Edith is a steel twin fold-Router.
MP Mader, VA.ru 0. Madalj expressed agre ent with Pre-travelling in a tramcar. from Blake screw tug of 138 tons, gross,
Madar, S. Hamall, S. A. R. Ismail Fier to the Station yesterday. and with a net tonnage of 484 NANKING IS SEEKING sident Hoover's proposals.
A. K. Ismail, S. Ismail, SA, Bum tons MEN
jahn, H. D. Eumfahin, A. Bütt, 8. The return of notillable, diseases. She was built in 1905 by the
Mehal, A. Rahman for the week ended, July 23, is as Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock
Abbas, S. Haroon, follows-Cholera 21 casos, 7 deathu Co., Ltd. for their own ure, as a The
orted); amal-pos. I death; ender & With a length of: 108 unders diphtheria 1 cane, 1 death (1iny feet, a beam of 20 feet 5 biches, the Board port typhoid fever 2 case nd a depth of 10 feet 3 inches, Boxer Inde
meningitis 2 cases;
largest of the pulmonary tuberculosi4770
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