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No. 28,218 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1932. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
£10,000 OFFER TO SAVE BRITISHERS FROM BANDITS' HANDS
Maurice Tate, holder of all Test bowling records, will not arcompany the M.C.C. side to Australia owing to a second nervous breakdown..
RIVER CREWS” ·
STRIKE MAY
SOON SPREAD
Officers Keep Silent
On Position.
TWO SHIPS TIED UP.
The greatest reticence is be-
"RED" STUDENT
INDIGNATION ROUSED LEADER HELD
BY CRUEL THREATS
GRAVE FEARS FELT FOR SAFETY OF WOMAN
YOUNG HUSBAND HELPLESS
London, To-day.
The "Daily Mail" has offered the sum of £10,000 to bring about or assist in the rescue of the two British captives in Manchurian bandits' hands, Mrs. Muriel Pawley, pretty young bride, and Mr. Charles Corkian, an employee of the A.P.C. Grave fears are felt for their safety."
The offer is made "in the hope of stimulating the authorities to prompt and decisive steps" to save Mrs. Pawley and her companion from a ghastly fate.
IN SHANGHAI
Nanking Rounds Up Dangerous Youth.
SECRET INSTRUCTIONS,
[From Our Own Correspondent.
Shanghai Today.
Nanking a movement to rou up all dangerous Communists, culminated in Shanghai police ar- resting Yuan Chi-chun, an al- leged "Red" student, charged with responsibility for all "stud- ent animosities" in Shanghal and throughout China,
The arrest followed receipt of secret instructions to the Public Safety Bureau from Nanking
The "Daily Mail" award may be used either in bringing the two Garrison Headquarters, stating to safety or may be paid as ransom, it can be spent to equip a Yuan was hiding in a school in the rescue party or in any direction which authorities deem it, so long Western District of Shanghai. as the purpose is the freedom of the prisoners.
She
Feeling is intense in England, and ing observed by the officers of elsewhere, over the bandit outrage. the river boats in Hong Kong Only yesterday Mrs. Pawley's! this morning regarding the strike mother-in-law related a story of the of seamen on the Hong Kong young woman's bravery in the face Canton river craft, s.&. Sai On of discouraging prospects. and s.s. Charles Hardouin. The had written to her father, in Muk- strikers are stated to have deden, a missionary, asking him to manded that the management of save her and her companion, but the Tung On S.S. Company can first of all to send her a powder- cel the regulation demanding the put and lipstick. workers to pay a certain amounti
Husband's Efforts.
"you.
of money as deposit as security Meanwhile, Mr. Pawley, the for the Company against smug young, husband of the captive wo- "zling.
mas, la making frantic efforts to
It is thought, however, in certain organise some sort of rescue party. quarters that the trouble goes It was only with the greatest diffi- deeper than that. So far no other culty that he was prevailed upon not ships have been affected, and it 15 to venture out alone to save his atated that the 's.s. Paul Beau will, wife and friend, with whom he was If possible, sall as usual, this even riding when the bandite sprang Ing. Rumours are current to the upon them. But the authorities effect that the strike will spread have pointed out to Mr. Pawley that to the s.8. Tung On and the he would probably lose his life in Paul Beau, but no official informa any such rescue venture and would: tion to support the report was forthcoming when a "China" Mail" reporter visited the two ships this
morning.
FRENCH SHIP HELD "IN $30,000 ACTION.
Three Officers Are Stranded Here.
CHIEF JUSTICE'S HEARING
The seizure by the Court of the French steamer Governor Gen- eral Maurice Long II, owned by the Man On Steamship Co., Ltd., of Haiphong leaving its officers, Captain Paul Luigi, M.Le Guyot (Chief Officer) and M. Jean Eerot (Chief Engineer) stranded in the Colony, had a sequel in an action heard by the Chief Justice Sir Joseph Kemp, in Admiralty Juris diction in the Supreme Court this morning.
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LULL IN CHEFOO FIGHT MAY PREFACE PEACE
Rival Warlords WAL Nanking' Settleme
and
The situa here bellef
have demanded more than $1,000,- 000 for the safe return of both their
prisoners. They have threatened,
Miss MacDonald.
He has been identified as the chief Moscow representative sent to Shanghai to promote Communist activities among students.
DOLLAR STEADY
BUT SILVER IS SLIGHTLY DOWN
MANCHURIAN SOLDIERS ON DUTY
are in the Manchukno Army, guarding against a sudden attack by the volunteers
BRITAIN'S
DELEGATES
TO GENEVA
Sir John Simon And Sir Bolton Monsell.
· BUREAU MEETS TO-DAY.
London, To-day. Foreign Secretary Sir John
A big detective squad found Simon and First Lord of the Ad- Yuan napping In a room of the miralty Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell left London yesterday afternoon school. He did not resist arrest for Geneva to attend the meeting of the Bureau of the Disarma- ment Conference, opening to-day. -There had been some conjec- ture as to whether or not the Bureau would sit since Ger many announced the withdrawal of her delegates from the Con ference in view of the non-accept-| ance of her demand for squality. of treatment in the matter Armaments Other nations endeavouring to effect a comp mise, however and "many back into the par
where a new basis of arms agreements may be sought
New York Markets Strengthening.
SIGNS OF ACTIVITY.
Reports reaching here from Lon- DR. JOAN DECLINES don and New York indicate a
TO SAY "OBEY.”
general state of steadiness in money and stock markets to-day.
While the Hong Kong dollar re-
HUNDREDS CHEER PARTY.
London, To-day.
almost certainly cause the bandits Premier's Daughter Is to murder the two captives.
The bandits, it is understood, Wedded At Wendover.mained steady at 1-3%, both spot and forward silver prices declined fractionally.Spot silver dropped to 17% from 17.11/16, and for- ward to 17.11/16 from 17.13/16.
The London on New York cross rate was $8.47 today, as against quers, was solemnised to-day. 38.47% yesterday and the New The wedding was witnessed by York on London rate was $3.46% hundred distinguished persons, as against 33.474.
furthermore, to kill them if any at- tempt is made at a rescue. They The marriage of Dr. Joan Mac will, they add, send Mr. Corkrah's Donald to Dr. Alastair Mac- ears to his friends unless moneyKinnon at Wendover, near Che is paid swiftly.
NEW THEATRE FOR KOWLOON.
Open
Alhambra To
In December.
SEATING CAPACITY FOR
2,000 PEOPLE.
Alterations Cause Delay.
Erected at a cost of $700,000, the new Alhambra Theatre, in Nathan Road, owned and operat ed by the Hong Kong Amuse ments Limited, will be opened to the public early in Decem this year. The new theatre bounded by: Kansu Street on south, Market Street on north, Nathan Ko and Boochow La
The Alha
› Mr. Famon de Valera will pre- side at the Arms Conference Bureau sessions. British Wire- less Service.
DOWNTOWN PROPERTY. SELLS AT $550,000."
Ice House Street Block Changing Hands.
The premises at Nos. 11- and 12, Ice House St, occu pied by the Netherlands Trading Society, have been sold for $550,000 to Mr. Wat Chiu-pak, proprietor of the Yee Tin Tong Drug Com pany in Cheen's Road.
was n
fer of the property to-day at the Messrs., Russ, and
Co., solicito
Hangman Ellis
Found Stabbed
Throat Slashed In Rochdale Home,
John Ellis, 68, the
GENERAL CHAN WILL TAKE FUKIEN POST. man for 28
At Present Serving In
Amoy.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)"
Canton, To-day General Chan Ming-shu take port – as Chairman of the men of politics and of letters, Dow Jones averages in New York Fakten Government, ~ and it who crowded the Congregational to-day were quoted as having risen understood General Chiang Church chapel, made beautiful by 2.43 in Industrials, 1.00 in Ralls and Kwong-nel has ref the office. choice flowers from the gardens 72 in Utilities.
The latter, it is believed, desires
mershi
of Chequers.
bride, who
self-composed" omit "obey from the ritual
the word
Both Joan and her father were cheered to the echo. Some peo paid “a fiver""" for standing-room in a cottage gardens opposite the | chapel. +4
The destination honeymoon is unknown
ter:
Madiona
1001000.
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Attitude To Philippines
his throat cut Rochdale
execution lat 203 Ithose of the notorious
and Sir Wh
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ripper
SOUTH CHINA
COMMAND
SWIMMING
Huge Crowd Witness Army Contests.
HOLDERS WIN RELAY HEAT. ATVR.C
Burns: Qualifies.
The V.R.C. was filled to ovET flowing to-day on the occasion
of the Eighth Annual Swimming Meeting of the South China Command. Representatives of all regiments and units together: with a small crowd of naval spec. tatora showed the immense in terest being taken in the meet- ing which will be concluded to- morrow.
A prominent competitor who should render & good
himself · for the Bors Pte. W. T. Campbell, who broke the Army record for the Harbour {Swim a fortnight ago. He has also broken the British Army records for the Quarter-Mils and the Half Mile in unofficial trials in the "Y bath
The 20th be defendi Inter-Be while well serve
offer a stern Small Units:
other defe
Lt. Musson
Olver
ery RA will title in the
Yards Championsh McPhee (25 Yards)
RESULTS:
Inter-Battery Company Rel
*L* "B" Coy,, Borderers. 2nd Has
112th Battery, R.A ård He
$180%
120th Battery, R.A. (holders). 4th Heat:
12 EQ. Wing, Argylla.
Bays Handicap 50 Yarda.
1st Heat O
1 Burns (holder), 2.D. Burns
play or suicide is 2nd Heat
do not divulge.-H. Clark
Brd Heat
LITTLE SERVANT
Beaten Her
Son Of