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HONG KONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1932.
LOCAL RACING SENSATION
CHINESE FIRE
ON EUROPEANS
INACCURATE REPORT
IN TRAIN IN LOCAL PAPER
1,500 Troops In Clash
Tsitsihar,
NO DECISION YET MADE
RAILWAY SETTLEMENT TWICE ON RESPITE FOR CHENG
CHANGES HANDS.
Heavy Casualty Reports:
Harbin, To-day. Fifteen hundred anti-Man- chukua troops, with artillery and machine-guns. attacked the Manchakuo garrison and captured the Chinese Eastern Railway settlement at Tsitsi- har on Saturday. They also poured fusillade after fusil- lade into a train from Man- "chuli which was standing in the station with passengers '. from Europe.
Two Japanese armoured 'traips and troops quickly ar-
rived and, after five hours' - bombardment, the attackers retreated. suffering heavy.. casualties.
"
It is not known whether any
of the European passengers.
were wounded.-Reuter.
FUKIEN WAR
SHOULD END
BY FEBRUARY
General Au' Sees No Great Difficulty.
19TH ARMY'S PROGRESS.
The anti-Red campaign in Fukion should be completed within four months, and by February of next year the last remnant of the bandit согра will have been dispersed, in the opinion of General Au Chau-nien, of the 19th Route Army.
General Au, one of the officers of
the 19th Route Army, who
GOVERNMENT HOUSE AND SUPREME
COURT SURPRISED
THE REPORT PUBLISHED IN AN EVENING CONTEM- PORARY TO-DAY THAT A RESPITE OF THREE MONTHS IN THE EXECUTION OF THE DEATH SENTENCE PASSED UPON CHENG KWOK YAU, IS TO BÙ GRANTED BY HE, THE GOV- ERNOR, IS INCORRECT.
Eat, 1945,
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
Fort DUNLOP
a class by itself
AS CHAMPAGNE BAY DISQUALIFIED
MIDST SCENES OF GREAT, ENTHUSIASM.-T.HH the Prince of Wales and Prince George visited the Mediterranean Fleet at Corfu, Greece. The Princes Inspecting the Greek Guard of Honour Who ate wearing the famous fustinella dress. Bay leaves and fragrant oleander blossom" were strayn by the Inhabitanta of Corfu in the path of the Royal Princes(S. & G.)
THE CHINA MAIL WAS INFORMED BY MR. J. BARROW, PRIVATE SECRETARY TO H.E. THE O.A.G. (Hon. MR. W. T, SOUTHORN) THAT THE MATTER IS UNDER CONSIDERATION OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND THAT IN DUE COURSE SUN FO AS AN ORDER WILL BE MADE. NO DECISION YET HAS BEEN MADE, HOWEVER.
Mr. E. H. P. Lang, Registrar of the Supreme Court, told the China Mail this afternoon that the report did not originate from the Supreme Court. He had no knowledge of it himself, he said.
Mr. R. C. H. Lim told the China Mail that he had received no offi- cial intimation of any decision, and he was surprised to see the re port published. He knew of no foundation for the report.
The Junior evening contempor ary reports—
"A respite of three months in the exocation of the death sen- tance passed upon Cheng Kwe yau, convicted of the murder of George Fung in March last, is to
SCOUTS AND
GIRL GUIDES
AT SERVICE
be granted by BE. the Governor, Impressive Ceremony
it is learned to-day.
At St. Andrew's...
APPEAL FOR LOYALTY.
Marking the 12th anniversary
"The postponement of the day of execution," which normally would take place next week,, is being granted in order that an applica. tion may be made in London for special leave to appeal to the of the 1st Kowloon Troop of Boy Privy Council.
Scouts, the annual parade service
"Neither the local courts nor for Scouts. Girl Guides, Wolf H.E. the Governor has the Cubs and Brownies was held in BBW authority to grant leave to appeal St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,
CHINA'S NEXT
PRESIDENT
Chiang Kai-shek Wishes To Replace Wang.
RUMOURS OF NEW APPOINTMENT.
Shantung War May Be Bred Of Politici
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Canton, To-day.
There is a virulent ru- mour here to the effect that Mr. Sun Fo has gone north from Hong Kong at the re- quest of Marshal Chiang Kai- shek and to assume the post of president of the Execu- tive Yuan, recently left va- cant by Mr. Wang Ching~ wel's resignation, : "/
Mr. Sun is a former president
action during the Sino-Japanese to the Privy Council, whose Judi- yesterday morning. There was a of the Executive Yuan but he re- fighting about Shanghai, arrived cial Committee alone can decide full congregation present, the
cuss military matters with the authorities, in respect of bandit 19 suppression.
criminal case."
» J. D. THOMSON HOLES OUT
IN ONE AT FANLING.
Seventh Hole On Old Course..
Mr. D. Thomson had the distinction of holing out inone when playing in y fourball match with Messrs. MacKnight, Webb and Mac- donald over the old course at Fanling yesterday. . Mr. Thomson holed out at the Bevent
FAMOUS PILOT
IN COLONY ON
WORLD FLIGHT
Von Gronau Hopping Again To-morrow,
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
Considers Air Mail Service Here Is Feasible.
GANDHI FASTS
WHILE LONDON
VIEWS FACTS
Warns He may Keep Starvation Vows.
IF SETTLEMENT: FAILS,
STEWARDS ACTION
Shanghai Jockey's Protest Upheld.
MR. REIDY'S RIDING DISCUSSED,
Whips Used Freely In Close
A sensation was caused this after noon when the Hong Kong Jockey Club announced that Champagne
Bay, winner of the last race on Saturday at Happy Valley, had been disqualified.
Following
the protest lodged by Mr. S, W. Pan, the Shanghal jockey, whe rode Wonderful Stag, the second horse in the race, the Stewards held an inquiry at 12:45 p.m. to-day. The pro- camera ceedings were in and the reason for the de- cision was not announced. It 18 understood, however, that Mr. Pan's protest concerned the riding tactics of Mr. L. Reidy, jockey of the winning horse Champagne-Bay l Towned by Messrs. Dumbar
and Reidy
Poona, To-day. Determination to resort to an- other fast, if necessary with the object of rooting out "un- touchability," was expressed by Mahatma Gandhi in a special
The finish of the race was statement to Reuter. He said that if Premier Ramsay Mac- very exciting one and the best of Donald accepted the agreement the day, only a head separating reached at Poona in toto, he was the two horses as they passed
an
bound to break his fast, but it the winning post. Champagne might merely be a suspension. Bay was on the rails, and comming "I certainly will retake the down the straight the two horses "almost touching each vow if the part to be played by were the Caste Hindus is not well play other. Whips were used freely. ed during the coming months, and there were many comments But the tremendous awakening on the riding, by spectators after of the country during the past the race.
five days, fills, me with hope that Little surprise was felt when i
here yesterday on his way to Can whether or not it will hear an ap- service being conducted by the cently retired from public life.
It was common gossip before "I know too little about the orthodoxy will surpass itself and became known that the protest had ton to visit his family and to dis peal from the Crown Colonies in a Rev, G. E. S. Upsdelh, M.A., Hon Mr. Wang resigned, that Mar-country to express an opinion on rid Hinduism of the canker of been entered. Dividends were÷pald - out on the actual result, Champagne C.F. The first lesson was read skal Chiang wished to be rid the prospects of air mail services "untouchablity."
Bay paying $67.30, Wonderful Stag, Respite Refused. by Scoutmaster R. Dormer, while of him and that he had had between here and Shanghai, but Gandhi seems brighter and $7.30 and Ajax, $7,80... The Cath When sentence of death was the second lesson was read by disturbed days owing to his suspf- there is no reason to doubt that better than yesterday but his Sweeps were also paid out on the General Au was greeted by passed, Mr. Lim applied for respite Assistant Scoutmaster R. H. cion that Mr. Wang might in. it could be carried out. Amphi- doctor says he will be unable to actual result, and it is bellaved that
large delegation of Hong of sentence, but the Chief Justice Wong.
fluence General Feng Yu Cheng and bian machines would be the fast much longer with sufficient the disqualification will not effect Kong business and profes- replied that he knew of no power Representatives from the Sea Yen Sek Shan to oust the Young most suitable machines owing to strength for recovery, sional men, amongst whom were which he could exercise in the Scouts, Kowloon Scottish Scouts Marshal, Chang Heuch-liang from the absence of landing grounds (Continued, on Page 7.)
(Continued on Faje 7.) J matter. His Lordship refused the and St. Andrew's Wolf Cubs his foothold in the north. It was up the coast. Regarding the
&
EUROPEAN WOMAN IS KILLED BY BOMB. Bengalis Bomb Party Of Britishers.
DURING SOCIAL AFFAIR.
Calcutta, To-day.
A British woman, Mrs. Sulli- van, was the victim of a Terror- lat outrage which occurred at midnight at the European Insti- tute at Baratali, Chittagongon Saturday, when the institute was thronged with Europeans on the occasion of the monthly dance. DIE AAN
application.
Cheng's execution would normal ly take place next week, three clear Sundays having passed, by then.
16 BALLOONS
LEAVE BASLE
IN SKY RACE
Warned Not To Fly Over Russia.
MOVE TO THE NORTH.
were present, as well as guides
because
feeling of his
of commercial value of any such from the Central British School, security that Marshal Chiang venture I could not say a thing. Diocesan Girls School, Chinese sought to control the ac- Personally, I myself am not in- guides, and the 2nd Kowloon tions of the Executive Yuan, tereated in any such project in Pack of Brownies.
and possibly through him that the breach between Mr. Wang and te Young Marshal ended, in the re- signations of both.
(Continued on Eago 7.)
REVIVAL IN
AUSTRALIA
PREDICTED.
Commonwealth Needs More Advertising.
DULL MOTOR MARKET. Sixteen balloons, entered by "One of Australia's chief troubles eight nations, including three is that the people from the coun- A gang of some ten armed men each from America, Germany, try, when travelling abroad, do not flung a bomb into the building France and Switzerland, started talk enough about her, and when and then escaped.
this afternoon on the annual they do they often say the wrong The injured include two police Gordon Bennett Race for a cup thage. She wants more advertise officers. No further disturbances presented by Mr. Henry Ford. ment," "asid Mr. Clark C. Williams, have occurred..
A light, breaza carried the com- who for six years was General
Basle, To-day.
A body of Bengalis, armed petitors in the direction of Bel- Manager there for General Motors with revolvers, surrounded and gium, which was fortunate, since in the Commonwealth, M. Williams attacked the European Institute. the Soviet had warned that the is passing through en route to
The terrorists escaped leaving balloons would not be allowed to America
behind the body of a Be
girl who was kille
encounter, Shert been
fed as one of
driftover Soviet territory, #Australia and
though all the entrants declared tine
would take the risk if ne
There are no British
(Continued on page 12).
FRENCH FINANCE SCHEME ANNOUNCED A SUCCESS.
Conversion of Huge Sums Supported By Nation
Paris, To-day. The Government's Conver sion Scheme le a huge suc cess. The Finance Minister tionsfor ed in
announces redemption respect of
000 fram 85,000)
this part of the world her
These remarks were made by Captain von Gronau this morn ing in an Interview with the "China Mail.R
AIRSHIP BILL TO BE URGED.
Subsidy For Trans- Oceanic Service.
Washington, Sept. 25.
Speaking of his trip from Congress will be asked again Shanghai to Hong Kong the this winter to let the government Captain said that it had aid airahip development by grant- been entirely free from trouble ing air mail contracts to the opera of any kind. “I wish all flying tors of trans-oceanic dirigibles, a As well as was like that hop, he smiled. line across the Pacific "Unfortunately, little things crop trans-Atlantic service being een- up which often delay us. For templated Instance In Nagoya harbour In A bill introduced by Rep. Robert Japan we were taxi-ing ont from Crosser, of Ohio to permit such the mooring when two sampans contracts was passed by the Hause crossed in front of us. We were last spring but did not gain con- forced to swerve and the tide took sideration in the Senate before the
uly us near a buoy on which our wing summer adjournment in
Meanwhile officials of the Good. struck That cost us one day,
** (Continued on Paga
year Zeppelin corporation veloping The
both ocea
For services : across
other sweepstakes in the Colony.
The Officials result of the race as it now stands is
1. Hau Un's Wonderful Stag
(Mr. W. Pink 2 K. H. Kay's Ajax (Mr. 8. Y. T. Fang's Indiana
EIGHT CHINESE
DIVIDE WEALTH
OF BIG LOTTERY. $250,000 In Awards Are
Distributed
MORE THAN 30 PRIZES.