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No. 28,404 TH HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1933.
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BERNARDS' OF HARVICH
Chater Road.
GENTLEMEN'S
ELABORATE MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN AND MOSCOW
Mile. Maryse Hilz.
MLLE. HILZ
LEAVES TO-DAY
FOR HANOI
Hops Off From Kai Tak
At 10.45 A.M.
TOKYO TO PARIS FLIGHT
MAY DAY
IN GERMANY
AND RUSSIA
Extensive Preparations For Stupendous Displays
HITLER AND STALIN TO LEAD CELEBRATIONS
London, To-day. Germany and Russia will this year compete for May Day honours.
After hours of tedious waiting for good weather. Mlle. Maryse Hilz, the French aviatrix, took off". from Kai Tak this morning at 10.45 o'clock. Conditions ahead are uncertain, but the intrepid fly-
er expressed her determination to
reach Hanoi to-day.
Unprecedented preparations
have been made in Berlin,
where a record crowd of 1,000,000 have been induced to attend a "Labour Day" parade and a stupendous fire- work display, reproducing, according to the newspapers, "The din of a modern battle ground," followed by a one- hour speech by Chancellor Hitler, conveyed through 100 loud speakers.
The address will reveal the first section of his "Four Year Plan" for German re- storation.
GREECE RESTRICTS COFFEE IMPORTS
Coffee From Dutch Colonies Exempted From New Rule
Athena.
Parliament has passed a bill which will be permitted only in restricting the import of coffee relation to the export of Greek goodsport
Coffee imported from the Dutch colonies will remain exempted from this rule.-Trans-Ocean.
SOVIET - JAPAN
TENSION OVER
C.ER. DISPUTE
Scathing Article In
Harbin Times.
SOVIET OFFICIAL'S LETTER "BARKING OF A MAD DOG"
Harbin, To-day.
The threat that Manchukuo will. be constrained to resort to force to solve the Chinese Eastern Railway
To prepare the path for a party dispute is contained in a scathing purge and a big new industrial article in the Japanese-owned news- Įprogramme, the authorities in Russia have staged an unpre- paper, the "Harbin Times," which
Mile. Hilz, who arrived in the cedented and most impressive characterises M. Kouznetsoff's Jet- Colony at 5.15 p.m. on Saturday tableaux of industrial scenes and after a 10-hour non-stop flight illuminated portraits.
ter to Li Shmo-ken, the Manchukuo
from Shanghai, intended to M. Stalin has made a substan Director General of the Chinese make her departure from Kalia food ration concession
Tak yesterday morning. Shej took off at 7.30 a.m. but the bad visibility forced her to return and she landed at the aerodrome
again at 10.30 a.m.
The bad weather encountered
since the commencement of
the day. — Reuter..
·
Spain In Fete.
SOCIALIST EDICT FORBIDS ALL WORKL
for Eastern Railway, as the "barking of
á mad dog,"
The article says that his demand that normal working conditions should be restored on the Chinese Eastern Railway evokes laughter, as it is "equivalent to a highway rob- Madrid, To-day. All the restaurants here, yester- ber professing intolerance of steal- her return trip from Tokyo has day specialised in cold packeted ing."--Reuter. caused Mlle. Hilz to abandon her luncheons for to-day, when every | attempt to establish a new te manner of work is forbidden ex- cord for the Tokyo-Paris fight. cept the duties of Doctors and un- and she now states that she will'dertakers, by a Socialist edici.' "take no chances."
Even the Post Offices will go slow and only accept telegrams at triple rate.
(Continued on Page 7)
SPEED PILOT IN S. AFRICA'S OVERSEA
COLONY
TRADE
Favourable Balance Of
£37,000,000:
BIG INCREASE ON 1931
No Alarm Felt In Tokyo.
JAPANESE FORCE HALVED IN NORTH MANCHURIA.
(Reuter's Special Serviet,)
Tokyo, Saturday.
The grave view reported to be held abroad regarding? the Japanese-Soviet tension, finds little echo in responsi- ble quarters in Tokyo, either Japanese or oreign,
NAZI RIVALS
MUST SUBMIT
TO HITLER
'Steel-Helmets *” To Bel
Absorbed.
MANY DEFECTIONS REPORTED
Leader Asked To Resign Hir Reichstag Sext
Berlin, To-day.
The eventual absorption of Pre- sident Hindenburg's ““Steel-helmet" troops by Chancellor Hitler's "Brown-shirts, is egyisaged as a result of an announcement made
yesterday by the Nazi Deputy Lead-
er, Herr Hess, that members of the "Steel-helmet" troops can only jom the Nazis by agreeing to submit un reservedly to Hitler lendership.
and by first abandoning · member- ship of the "Steel-helmets."
The announcement also forbids Nazi members to join helmets."
"Steel
A recent photograph of Adolf Hitler.
Wrestling has become very popular and the sport has now in- vaded England. N. Morrell (Manningham, Yorks) just before he threw E. Weeks (Bolton) in the second round of the feather- weight Catch-as-Catch-Can contest daring the National” Amateur Wrestling Championships held last month at Prince's Hall, Lam- beth, London. (S. & G.) ·
ANGLO - PERSIAN
TREATY Negotiations For Close Co-operation.
A RAILWAY TO LINK INDIA AND IRAQ
har
London, To-day.
The Anglo-Persian oil agreement
opened the path for an Persian treaty.
GEHRIG HITS
7TH HOMER IN
US. BASEBALL
Yankees'
Double" Against Boston.
FALLENSTEIN'S FINE DEBUT
New York, To-day. Lou Gehrig, 1931 home rqs. Anglo-king, banged out his sixth and seventh homers of the seaBOIT in the Yankees first game against Boston yesterday. ***^ Babe Ruth hit his Arth homer wbija, Lazestiendile two to his fiit to give the Yankees the double"
In connection with the agree according the London Daily Express, the Shah of Persia
has agreed to send a Plenipoten-as the result of their win by 8 to.8 in the second game of their double- fary to London to negotiate a pact header with Boston.
for close commercial and diploma-
Detroit Tigers, who went down tic co-operation between the two to the Browns in their first encoun- ter, made's good recovery in the countries. It is already reported that]
second game to win by 5 to 1 there are many defections in the The pact mentions the exclusion Stone and Walker both hitting two ranks of the "Steel-helmets" des-of Russian influence in North Per-circuit clouts. pite the leaders' efforts to pre-sia and a railway linking up Iraq. Results as cabled by Reuter were vent the falling away, b
and India.-Reuter.
ns follow:--
National League.
Herr Franz Seldte, leader of the Stahlhehi, and Minis- ter of Labour in the Hitler- Government, went over to the Nazis on Friday, laking many of his followers with him. He stated that those who refused to follow him would be released from the membership oath.
The step has been long ex- pected, and was hastened by the purge of the opposition elements, including Lieut.-Col. Duester-
PERU PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED
Y
Serious Clashes Occur In Lima.
MILITARY FIRE ON ANGRY MOBS
R. H. 0 ว
E.
DOLONOR
CAPTURED BY
MANCHUKUANS
10,000 Troops Attack In Mongolia.
JAPANESE ASSIST WITH TANKS AND AEROPLANES
Bandits Also Harass Chinese Defenders
Peking, To-day. A Chinese tele gram from Kalgan states that 10,000 Manchukuo troops, under the ex-Volun- teer Liu Kuei-tang, and with the assist- ance of the Japan- ese, attacked Do- lonor with aero- planes and tanks on April 28
pied the occu
city on Saturday evening.
Chinese cavalry were forced to eva- cuate when more
than 1,000 plain- clothes Mongol ban- dits rose up and dis- turbed their rear. Reuter
CHINESE ADVANCE IN LUANHO
Peitaiho Occupied
Peking, To-day
The "advance of the Chinese troops in the Luanko region is re- ported to have resulted in the oc-
New York:
cupation of Peitais, The Chinese Fallenstein pitched for first time are now said to be advancing an
in Major League.
Chinwangtao.—Renter. Boston
3 6
New York Boston
Berger hit a homer."
Philadelphia Brooklyn
O'Doul hit &
Major Doolittle To Visit Canton,
Lima, To-day. DEMONSTRATION - FLIGHTS
The President of Peru, Lieut.. berg, Second-in-Command, who The Daily Telegraph "" be- IN PURSUIT PLANES
was dismissed on Wednesday Col. Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, Pittsburgh lief that the Japanese movements last, and Major Wagner, Federal was assassinated here yesterday. Cincinnati south of the Great Wall are in Chancellor of the force. Major J. H. Doolittle the famous Figures showing South Africa's tended to mask troop movements American flier and one time win overseas trade for the year ended further north is branded as ab.. ner of the Schneider Trophy arriv- December 31, 1932, have now surd and mischievous, as on the been made public. They show a contrary, the Japanese strength in North Manchuria has been cut:
Capetown,
ed in the Colony on board the 8.5. favourable trade balance of £37, by half since February last, President Lincoln this afternoon, at 000,000 as compared with only when two infantry Brigades and 2.30.
£18,000,000 in the previous year, one cavalry Brigade were with- Although, during the year, South drawn southward for the Jehol He is only spending about 24; hours in Hong Kong as he is due Africa exported 88.1 per cent, of operations.
to leave here to-morrow night its products to the British Empire These troops have not yet re- for Canton, where he will make -85.7 per cent. of which went to turned from the south, demonstration flights on a Cur- the United Kingdom-she imported tise Hawk, single seater pursuit during the year only 55.5 per cent.
of her requirements from the Em DOLLAR STEADY AS plane;
'pire, of which 40.6 per cent, came This plane mounts the Wright from the United Kingdom.
SILVER DECLINES. Cyclone 700 h.p. engine which The United States took 0,5 per drives the plane at a speed of 216 m.p.h. at an altitude of 6,000 feet. cent. of the Union's products, but Major Doolittle's mechanic Mr, South Africa bought 13.8 per cent. E. R. Bayless is now in Canton as of her requirements from the Unit sembling the machine The pur- ed States.
Pound Gains In New
York And London.
The local dollar this morning re-
As a result of his defec tion, Herr Seldte has been asked by the National Party to resign his Relchatag seat, He has not yet replied to the demand. Reuter
Nazis To. Control Church
Immediately following the crime, clashes broke out in the
St. Louis streets of the capital, between soldiers and civilians."
bomer e
Pepper bit a homer. Chicago
Herman hit a homer.
St. Louis Chicago
American League,
2 81 4112-17270
Several were killed when the military fired into the angry mobe, and ambulances were busy throughout the night picking up the injured. President Cerro was elected for a period of five years In October, Boston 1931, and took office in December, New York the same year. Forty-four years Lou Gehrig hit two homera. Berlin. of age, he became a prominent
country when, Boston In furtherance of the National figure In the Socialist: effort to control Pro with a military Junta, he onsted New York as testant German church life and President Legula by revolutionary Babe Ruth and ercate united German evangelical methods, in 1980, Reuter,
homers. (Continued on Page-4.) 5.
PROTESTANT CONSTITUTION
ORDERED:
Mauritania" To Be Turned
Into Select Cruising Clu
Chicago
Krons Clevel
Club
Detroit
St. Louis
Levey hit a homer,
Detroit
London, To-day.
over 8,000
One entire deck; ker feet of spa
pose of the demonstrations. is to Last year the Union exported remained unchanged at 1/43⁄41⁄2′′ prove that the machine is capable goods totalling £69,000,000 a drop. Silver prices again showed a de- of performing as specified. This of £2,000,000 on the corresponding line, both forward and spot closing The Mauretania, once the most 'plane is the first of about 20 mh-jfigure for 1981-Reuter, UN
on Saturday at 19% us against 20 luxurious liner afoat, is to
service on the Atlantic and becoms chines, which have been purchased
on Friday
the London on New, club in the world, thia Midnight dances
by the Canton Government. O GERMAN- HISTORIAN HONOURED T. The round gained further ground the Brat dowting
Major Doolittle is the manager of the aviation, department of the Shell Petroleum Corporation at St. Louis, Mo. He is now on leave and has taken the opportunity to test ma- #chinos, for the Curtiss Company.......
(Continued on: Pagi::15,)
The Royal "Dania
his rinn, Professor,
Goe
Ocean
rday
swimming
Stone and Walker each hit tw
homers,
NEAR SHANGTU RUINS.
Dolon-Nor (the Seven Lakes, so called on account of the number of small poola in the neighbourhood), is in Mongolia, about 150 miles Northeast of Kalgan.
Near the spot are two lama tem- |ples, and 25 miles to the North-
| west are the extensive ruins of Shangtu, an ancient Monogollan capital, city of the Kubla Khan of Coleridge's poem,
18TH AMENDMENT REPEAL.
Wisconsin Urges End Of Prohibition.
Madison, Wis
Wisconsin's constitutional com vention called for the purpose has voted unanimously: “In favour of the ing amendment, to the federal constitution, repealing the eighteenth" or national prohibition
Wisconsin thus became the se cond state to formally take the step. [Michigan: "previously
fed the repeal ame
Your other states
(within the
years for: it to