WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1932,
MANCHUKUO AS
BUFFER STATE.”
T. V. Soong Resents Suggestion.
CRITICISES BRITAIN.
"A Great' Nation Is Being Crucified."
Shanghai. Yesterday, Interviewed by Reuter, Mr. T V Soong expressed surprise at cabled reports that the position of Man- chukuo as a "buffer state between
Ministry At Nanking Resigns In Body
Move To Bring Wang Back In Office
CHIANG'S
THREAT
Shanghai, Yesterday. Jed to the Powers for help.
Following the failure of the memn-
ber of Cabinet to induce Mr. Wang
to the gram
tion."
Chiang to Quit?
Nanking, Yesterday.
THE CHINA MAIL.
FOUR INJURED IN FURIOUS FIGHT.
RIGHTS OF WIFE ESTABLISHED.
Seven Milk Farm Boys Husband Can't Take
Charged.
POLICE CALLED OUT.
Concubine.
WITHOUT CONSENT.
Seven Chinese milk boys, em- An important judgment affecting ployed at the Pokfulam farms of a social problem that is receiving the Dairy Farm Company were increasing attention in present-day engaged in a wild fight on Mon-
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day night. Police from West China, was delivered by Mr. W. Point arrived on the scene and Schofield, in the Cenrtal Police quelled the disturbance.
Court yesterday, admitting the The Police, under Inspector claims of a wife who asked for W. R. MacWalter, found one of the seven men on the ground un-separation and maintenance from Ching-wei to withdraw his resigna- The political situation is further conscious. Three others were her husband, on the ground of per
the announcement bleeding profusely from head sistent cruelty and desertion, in tion the entire cabinet resigned complicated by
An ambulance was that he took a concubine without this afternoon and sent a joint tele- that Chiang Kai-shek will probably wounds.
Government and resign.
sent for, and the injured men) China and Japan is being discuss-Nanking, announcing its resigna-
Chiang Kai-shek yesterday sent were conveyed to hospital.
her consent. ~. ed with keen interest in London,
a brief, blunt telegram to Generals An Indian Sergeant and two The husband, Yu Wal-fong who Mr. Soong said: "The straits. The members of the Cabinet at Ho Ying-ching and Chu Pei-teh, guarda stationed at Pokfulam lives at No. 3, Front Row, Taihang, between Japan' and the mainland of Axia are many times wider than Nanking joined those at present in ordering them to proceed to Shang-Station, about 10 yards" south-
hai, without delay and persuade. Mr. west of the farm's main-gate is a clerk in a mercantile ofke; the channel which kept British Shanghai in this action. shores Inviolate for centuries, and Mr. T. V. Soong interviewed by Wang Ching-wei to withdraw his re-where the fight occurred, helped while the wife. Pan Suk-ching, is
Reuter this evening, declared that signation.
to disperse the crowd
a former pupil of the Italian Con yet Japan found it necessary to
The telegram concludes "If Wang of Wang Ching-wel's post awillow Korea.
It appears that the, fight start- The process of swallowing thesident of the Executive Yuan was Ching-wel doesn't withdraw his re-ed when a Hakka and a Ningpo vent.. neighbouring territory continues similar to that of a Prime Minister signation. I shall resign also."-man quarrelled over who was to
In other countries, hence his re- Reuter.. with the seizure of Manchuria, and even now Japan is poised for a signation must be followed by the descent on the vast province of wholesale Jehol, which is the gateway to Peking.
"It was a British Statesman who said there are no limits to the theory of geographical ', propinquity."
"Astonished.
state that Manchukuo is.
་་
Pre-
"
of the TWO CHARGED WITH
MURDER ATTEMPT.
in
resignation Cubinet. This was the all countries and was at which to be alarmed.
practice nothing
Until a new Cabinet was formed, " the resigning Ministers would; carry on their duties as usual.
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Beat And Stabbed Their Victim.
the other
Jar.
The summons was based on have his milk weighed first. The fallegations of persistent cruelty, milk was subsequently weighed, and desertion by taking another and on emerging from the main-woman and living in the same house rate the quarrel was continued as the wife. Leated words led to blows, and His Worship ordered that com- man, some Hakkas plainant be not bound to cohabit and some Ningpo men, joined with her husband, that the defen- in armed with bamboo poles. dant pay $62 a month, Le.. half his An alarm was raised, and Mr. income, through the Court for her A Government spokesman simi-
R. S. Meadows, of the Dairy maintenance, that he is to pay com-" larly declared the action of the Charged with wounding and the Staff, rushed to the scene of the plainant's costs, fixed at $300, and "That the idea of a buffer stath Ministers was a mere "formality." attempted murder of a man named disturbance.
that complainant, shall, have the in Manchuria is so readily accept Reuter,..
Wong Hau, two Chinese. Yip Kau: The seven men, four with han-custody of whatever child there may ed by the Tukyas correspondent of
Urges Acceptance. and Luk, Kwai, appeared before Mr. daged heads and blood-stained be of the marriage. Payment of The Times moves: one to astonish
Nanking, Yesterday.
"Fraser in the Kowloon Police Court singlets, were brought before maintenance is to start forthwith. ment, as by now the murest child
Mr. Hin-shing Lo, instructed by Mr. Wang Ching-wei has sent an- yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Schofield in the Central Could understand the Gilbert and ocher telegram to the Central According to evidence, the victim Police Court this morning.. The Mr. Peter Sin, appeared for the Sullivan nature of the independent Executive Kuomintang Committee, and his wife had been returning first four pleaded guilty to fight complainan The defendant was suggesting that the Government home from work on the evening of ing., while the fifth sixth and represented by Mr. F. X.D'Almada, Put the so called Chief should accept Marsha Chang Hsueh- July 10. As they neared the Chin Executive, indeed is fittingly named inng's resignation as it came from se Cemetery two men set upon the "eventh defendants claimed that after the immortal Pooh Bah and Peking without a moment's hesita man and allegedly beat him with The Times correspondent's opinion tion.
The resignation of Marshal an iron bar. After the beating hat a remedy had to be found for Chang, adds Mr. Wang's telegram, the assassins produced knives and disregard of Japan's rights in Man-should open a new era to eliminate stabbed him.
IN GERMANY. churin could well be set to the the military control of provincial beer following a little to the rear, somit strains of punishment befit funds and territories at a juncture rap for help.” Cries from the in- ting the crime.
Catholic Centre In when military officers should pledge jured man attracted the attention of from the "One wonders it a arction of the supreme sacrifice to support the a caretaker and his son
and two guards were out on na- Key Position. British public is not at long last Central Government.
jermetery. The attackera ran off at
trol, while the other two guards baving its conscience pricked upd!"
their approach,
POWER FOR NAZIST Police enquiries led to the arrest were asleep when the call was firat defendant on July 11 at 86 made. They turned out at once.
however.
Berlin, Yesterday. His Worship bound all defen- The political situation is still $75 to keep the peace for a year. gling continues, but it may be taken He remarked that the defen- for granted that Herr von Papen dants, especially 1, 2, 3 and 4 and General von Schleicher will be had suffered enough punishment in the Government which presents itself to the Reichstag on August SHARE MARKET. 30.
is seeking justification for the in-
activity in the face of a flagrant
Reorganisation.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
His wife, who had
A startling suggestion for the re- Sapo Village, Kowloon.
The other
they were peace-makers, ;
Repiving to a query by his Worship as to why the Police at Pokfulam did not respond soon- er. Sergeant Kinner stated that. there was only one Indian Ser- cant and four Indian guards stationed there." The Sergeant]
i
POLITICAL TANGLE
Ailation of the Nine Power Treaty, organisation of the Nanking Guy was not located until August, 5. Hedants over in personal bonds of hopelessly tangled and purty hag- where the great nations solemnly
orament was made by Mr. Wang was arrested by a Chinese detective. and unconditionally guaranteed the territorial and administrative Ching-wei at an important military. The hearing was adjourned.
{contrance which was held at the integrity of China.
[refidence of Mr. Wang, last evening.
Feeling Runs High, "The present grave crisis which has arisen through the resignation of Mr. Wang Ching-wei is not to be won- dered at and should not be *ħqfd up against China as fur
ther proof of her instability,
when it is considered that Japan. 'The successful aggrés- zór nation, Assassinated two of her Premiers, her Minister
which Murshul Chiang Kai-shek's eluse associates, Mr. Wu Tse-hui
News in Brief.
For the 24 hours ending August und several others, were present.
6, une case of Cholera and one Mr. Wang Ching-wei's recom- mondation
cane as, a bombshell Case of Diphtheria were reported
Olyes.
day:
од
The key to the situation remains. The official summary of the in the Catholic Centre Party, head- The details are as yet not public in the retura of Notifiable Dis- Stock Exchange Issued yester-ed by the ex-Chancellor, Dr. Bruen- property.
Ling. This party will only tolerate A brisk demand at. the opening the participation of the Nazis Stoderate leaders and representa Kwok-cheang, Peking Lives of Chiang Kai-shek replied Road. reported that his dog wasted to rates being run up, in which latter's Ministers running wild. for the lower-priced issues quickly conditions, which will prevent the ly asking Mr. Wang Ching-wei to run over by a 'bus In Nathan Road reurn to Nanking first and dest night and find to be destroy-Hotels, Realties, Lights, Cements The Centre Party will immediately liberate about the reorganisation by the Police,
and Ewes all participated, and overthrow the Government if it fair volunte of business was done. attempts any experiments to which unanimous in Ko Wai-yan, a boy of about 23, The clase, however, was below the it objects... the decision to deal with Marshal was fined $10 for driving a borrbw-j Chang Hsueh-liang's troops after a car with # stolen driver's the latter retirement.
licence, when he appeared in Kow- loon Court to-day.
The meeting was
to China and her Minister offterwards, Finance over the identical question of the relations be tween the two countries.
Recommendations.
"14, is "but natural that passions should be aroused in the differ- eneca of opinion existing in the deanoiled state of China, not only Recommending the appointment
Li Hoi, street "coolle, was von- az regards polley but as regards of Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei, Mr. Tai Chi- the methods, the technique and the ao or Mr. Yu Yu-jen as his aue tenced to three weeks' hard labour ampo employed to resist further cessor in the Executive Yuan and in the Kowloon Court this morning Aggression.
the appointment of General Holfor the theft of five chickens and Ying-ching or General. Chu Pei-tehla quantity of vegetable. to succeed Marshal Chang Hsueh-
Spectators. Reproved.
military ad-t·
On the occasion of the Anniver
"I have never played the role of Hang in the Peking
A dog, belonging to Mr. C. J. prophet, but I am genuinely hope-'ministration, Mr. Wang made fur-Waddell, 538, The Peak, was sent ful that the present internal crisis ther comments on the Nanking to the Kennedy Town for observa- tion after it had bitten a Chinese will be satisfactorily solved and political crisis in an interview with that out of it will come the crystal newspaper correspondents,
cook employed at 530, The Peak! lisation of the national will that Mr. Wang Ching-wei stressed the|| further seizures of territory will importance of direét control by the be resisted with the resources of Nanking Government of the north-sary of the German Constitution the united nation at all costs.
jorn provinces and rigid reorganiza-Day the German Consul will hold an "Goodness knows, we've been tion of the financial administration official reception at the German patient enough, under the utmost there before the Central Goverment Club, No. 2, Connaught Road, 4th. provocation, but acceptance of the would be in a position to send mili- floor, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. The pious admonitions of Europeans tary reinforcements to Manchuria office of the German Consulate will
be closed on that day. and their chancellerics to 'refrain to assist the Chinese' volunteers., from aggravation' has only, result-
Boycott Advocated;
Thirty cases of cholera, of which
ed in our losing vast territories With reference to the Manchurian, two were imported and 15 resulted without the firing of a single shot.ituation Mr. Wang Ching-wei said in death, were reported as having "A great nation fa being that he was firmly convinced that occurred in the colony for the week crucified, and in decency it-he
Ching must rely entirely on herself ending August 6. Two cases of hoves the spectators not to to defend every inch of the remain smallpox, 18 cases of enteric fever, seek to assuage their coming Chinese controlled territory in one of cerebrospinal fever and 68 sciences by parfollike cries of 5
Manchuria and meanwhile to con- deaths resulting from pulmonary the punishment fitting the solidate the military position in tuberculosis, were also reported for
North China. Simultaneously, China the week.
trime
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must be united In enforcing an
1,
economic boycott, which in time The Concert to be held at, the might cause a severe blow to the Peninsula Hot
COAL BARTERED FOR COFFEE Japanese and might even cause inst
barter of
burg.
Internal developments in Jpana
Mr. Wang Ching-wel said that boal to the the Japanese realised the markdness of the foreign
ith theli dof
the 14th
to be ated at
these
best-
Sules. Providents (Old), $4.90/4.95. II.K. Hotels (New), "$10/10.30. Hong Kong Lands, $781⁄2 Hong Kong Realties, $10.80.. Hong Kong Trams, $22.90/$23. Star Ferries, £93**** China Lights (New), $17.70. Dairy Farms, $27.60. Watsons (Old), $12. H.K. Govt. Loans, 3% Premium.
Buyers.
Hong Kong Banks, $1,640 x div. China Underwriters, $2.80. China Fire Insurances, $620, H.K. Steamboats; $22. Union Waterboats, $204. Raubs, 1382YANAME: H.K. & W. Docks, ́$181⁄2. Providents. (Old), $4.90. H.K. Hotels (Old), $10.70.. H.K, Hotels (New), $104. Hong Kong Lands, 378. Hong Kong Resities, $10.80. Ewo Cottons, Tis. 14. Hong Kong Trams, $22.90. Peak Tramas (New); [7% Star Ferries, 8932 Yaumati Ferries (Old), $24. Yaumati Ferries (New), $83. China Lights (Old), $18.10. China Lights (New), $171⁄2. Hong Kong Electrica, #77%. Telephones(P.P.), $23 Malabon Sugars, $20,5 Cements (Combined), #15.90. Dairy Farma, $27%. 35 Watsona" (Old), $12.80, Lane Crawforday:35,4, pri H.K. Amusements, $19. Constructions, (Old), $7,60,
The Nazis will probably be offer. led a couple of minor Government posts with a promise of something [more important later-Reuter.
DRASTIC LAWS TO STOP TERRORISM.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Measure Anticipated.
Berlin, Yesterday. The ruthless mensurés” fore- shadowed by Herr von Papers, to terminate the reign of terror, kre ilkely to be embodied in a decree by President Hindenburg, inflicting the death penalty for such offences as high treason, arson, the use of || explosives, damaging railways and armed opposition to State au thorities.
Anyone possessing arms during {disorders in which life is lost may also be shot, irrespective of whe ther they are guilty of murder;
There will be no appeal from the verdicts of the special courts which will be set up.
In the meantime, various out- rages, such as bomb throwing and shooting are reported from Fall parts.
Further outbreaks of lawlessness are reported to-day.
At Allenstein a bomb was thrown from a motor car at the house of a leading Communist; while at Heidelburg, incendiary bombs wore thrown at Jawa. There were [no injuries; In either, case.
tach a hand grenade was
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