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FASCIST YOUTH STONED TO DEATH BY COMMUNISTS IN SPAIN
Professor Ollo Schmidt, who is credited with the survival of the Soviet party at 181 persons who were muronted on an Aretic ice the Пож
their offer
ship, Chelyuskin, was crushed by ire, Nome, hospital at is shown in Alaska, where he is convalescing from pneumonia.
VICE-CONSUL NOT
KIDNAPPED Vigorous Denial By Chinese Official
"MANY FALSE REPORTS WITH SINISTER MOTIVES"
FUTURE OF FASCISM
SHOWDOWN '
EXPECTED
IN COMMONS
MUSSOLINI TO MEET HITLER AT THE VILLA STRA
German Chancellor Travelling By Air For Friday Meeting
Rome, To-day.
A meeting between the German
Alleged Brutality Causes Chancellor, Herr Adolf Hitler, and
Bitter Feeling.
FOUR MEETINGS BROKEN UP
London, To-day.
Great interest is centred on a number of questions to be asked in the House of Commons to-day in regard to the alleged Fascist bru- tality at Olympia on June 7, and with a view to extracting the Government's latest altitude on the whole question of political uni- forms, and the Fascists' military marching.
Some members are expected to press for a debate on the subject; which the Government will hard- ly be able to refuse.
Others will press for legisla Lion banning political uniform and private armies with a view to curbing the activities of the] Nanking, To-day. Fascists. also forestalling the A high Chinese official futer-possible opposition forces organ- viewed yesterday, expressed in-ised by Sir Stafford Cripps, or the dignation over the reports that Communists. the Japanese Vice-Consul at Nan-
the Italian Premier, Signor Benito Mussolini will take place on Fri day and Saturday, at the Villa Strn, a residence belonging to the Government, between Italian Padun and Venice.
Herr Hitler and the German Baroit von Foreign Secretary, Neurath, will arrive at Venice by air and will join Signor Mussolini at the Villa-Reuter.
CHANGTE DUE ON FRIDAY
Refloated In Manila Bay This Morning,
The Australian Oriental lin- er 8.8. Changte, which went aground in Manila Bay on Fri- day, was refloated this morn- ing, and is now proceeding to She is expected Hong Kong.
STEEL STRIKE
WILL BE CALLED
IS PREDICTION Labourers Withhold Action.
THURSDAY'S MEETING IN PITTSBURGH
SPECIAL TO CHINA HA (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phic Messages Ordinance, 1804, Re- ceived June 10, 1037 pm.).
Washington, To-day. Saturday's conference between General Hugh Johnson and the steel labourers broke up with the labourers withholding action on the Government's mediator board proposal until after the Union con- vention at Pittsburgh, on Thurs- day. It is freely predicted that a strike will be called. United Press, per S. C., Gold Bar Co.
JOHNSON INVITED
Washington, To-day. The decision as regards the steel strike in the United States has been postponed until Thurs- day, when a special convention will be summoned at Pittsburgh of the Amalgamated Association
President Roosevelt welcomes President Stenio Vincent of Halli to the White House an his personal guest, marking the first time that an official of Halti has been a house guest of a United States plan for the with- President. The two Presidents conferred on- drawal of American supervision of Haitian financial affairs.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION BILL IN AMERICA PASSES
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, 3-Year Programme Now Requires to decide the question,
The National Recovery Ad- ministrator, General Hugh John- son, has been invited to attend.
to arrive here on Friday. The local agents, Messrs. Butter- field and Swire, Ltd., state that as Meanwhile. evidence of the king. Mr. Kuramuto, was kidnap-feelings of some sections of the far as they know the vessel has-Reuter. ped by Chinese special police, public is provided by the fact sustained no damage. outside the Japanese Consulate that four Fascini open air meet- The passengers were trans-ship-| ings in various parts of London
and murdered later."
DEPENDENT ON FUNDA·
Washington,To-day.
Only Roosevelt's Signature
Washington, To-day, The Rond Construction Bill introduced by a number of pre- United minent leaders of the Stater Congress, anthorising the of a three-year road-buliding_programme, quickly passed the House of Representa- Lives and the Senate and has been sent to the White House, for Pre- signature.- sident Roosevelt's Reuter.
commencement The American Federation' of La-i The Chinese official expressed yesterday were broken up by the ped to the C. P. R. liner s.s. Em-bour estimates that 10,616,000 per- the hope that the public abroad crowd or abandoned on the ad- press of Asia which is due here on sons are at present unemployed. would not be misled by false re- vice of the police owing to the Wednesday.
the Kuramoto case. menacing attitude of the crowd. parts on
Four arrests were which were fabricated and spread
for certain "inister motives."-Reuter. Reuter.
It is understood that the missing
official visited the station late on
made. ---
46
THE OLYMPIA FRACAS Thousands of people gathered in
Friday night to bid farewell to the neighbourhood of Olympia on Mr. A. Ariyoshi, Japanese Minister June 7, when the British Union of Shanghai on the night express, and Fascists, of which Sir Oswald Mas- to China, who was returning to ley is the chief, held a gigantic de- ! his disappearance dates' from that monstration. time.
Skirmishes between the Fascists:
Cum- and their opponents, chiefly munists occurred and once the situa- tion looked so ugly that the police were ordered to disperse the com-1 batants and charged
ADDITION TO
ITALIAN NAVY
BEFORE 1935 drawn batons. Two 35,000 Ton Vessels To Be Laid Down.
APPROACHING TREATY ·
STRENGTH
Rome, To-day.
them
with
EPEAKER INTERRUPTED While spasmodic fighting was re- curring outside Olympia, necessitat- ing the presence of hundreds of po- lice, Sir Oswald Mosley' was speak- ing inside the vast hall.
In the early stage, his speech was interrupted by several bodies of men, Following the decision reich-who seemed to have organised for ed on May 27 to build up to the heckling. They were thrown out limit of the Washington Treaty, by the Fascist stewards, including the Italian Government has an-women Fascists. nounced that two 35,000-ton war- ships will be laid down before the end of the year, at, Trieste and Genoa-Reuter.
Benito Mussolini told 10,00 war volunteers on June 2 that Italy will fight the next wer for herself! alone and not on behalf of any other nations pretending to be Billes,
"Experience has shown," he shouted, "that It doesn't pay
to
“LIVING BUDDHA" ON
H.M.S. SANDWICH
'BUY CHINESE" CAMPAIGN
Exhibition House For Native Products.
.".
Canton, Yesterday. In order to arouse, the people's interest in buying native goods. the City Cham- ber of Commerce is planning.. to build a native products exhibition house in the neigh- bourhood of its office...
The funds for the con- struction are to be raised through contributions. Re- gulations governing the col- lecting of contributions have 'been formulated already, it is learned. - Central Press.
WEATHER FORECAST
to go "Business is not ready ahead on its own. It still depends on Government funds", the Federa- tion states.-United Press, per S.C.
Gold Bar Co.
(Continued on Page 12).
·TELEPHONES IN SOUTH CHINA Extension Of Lines Contemplated.
BRANCH IN HONG KONG?
Canton, Yesterday. The Provincial Telephone Ad ministration is planning to erect more stations and establish more branch offices for the extension of long-distance telephone Hines in order to facilitate communication.
The places where stations will be erected are Hong Kong. Hai-kow, Pel-hói, and Tung-bing: and those where branch offices will be catab lished Chiu-ma-ying, Fat-ghan, and Chan-chuen.
It is also learned that along the Canton-Swatow line three additional Fair to showery, with moderate branch offices will be established, south winds, was the weather fare-one in each of the following re cast issued by the Royal Observa-gions; Nam-kong, Sin-tong, and tory this morning.
Wai-chow.-Central Press.
CANADIAN CROPS AT LOW LEVEL. Sequel To Severe Drought.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phic Messages Ordinance, 1841. Ra ceived June 10, 10.37 p.m.)
Ottawa, To-day. The Canadian Government's Bureau of Statistics states the Bevere that owing to drought in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan and parts of Quebec and, Alberta, Cana- dian crops are at a record low level-United Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co.
INNOCENT MAN SHOT AS PIRATE
Junk Foki Asks No- Questions.
First Visit To Warship Serious Allegations Against Soviet No. 1635V, wounding a man nom et
Since 1995.
The visit to Shanghai of the Pan- help people who pretend to be our chan Lama, the Living Buddha of
allies."
Tibel, was marked by an unusual roincident when he went on board. II.
Communist Party In London
CONTINUED TENSION
STRIKERS
RATHER DIE
THAN YIELD
Finest Harvest In 50 Years Will Rot.
VENDETTA STARTS
Madrid, To-day. The agricultural strik- ers in the Badajoz Pro- vince are prepared to see the finest harvest for half a century rot in the fields rather than yield to the demands of the employers.
They say that they have starved for two years and can starve a
US. SILVER BILL bit longer.
ACTION
Debate Will Stop To-day And Then Vote.
About 150,000 men are affect- ed, and fierce fighting with the Civil Guards continues intermit- tent.
Prisons in hundreds of small townships in the south of Spain are overflowing. Thousands of peasants have been arrested for Re"coercion" during the peasants'
strike.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phic Messages Ordinance. 1891. orived June 10, 10.57 pm)
Washington, To-day.
The United States Senate has agreed to limit the debate on the Silver Bill after 3 p.m. to-day in an effort to vote on the measure early this week, --United Press per S.C. Gold Bar Co,
REMOVAL OF TAX PROVISION.
Adoption Change Expected.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.....
(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phic Messages Ordinance, 3801, R. ceived June 11, 9,10 am.).
*** "BULLET RIDDLED CAR
An attempt was made on the life of Senor. José Primo de Rivero, son of the late dictator, yesterday. The car in front of his was riddled with bullets, bat Senor Jose was unhurt.
In full view of hundreds of bathers at the fashionable bathing beach, Playa on Manzanareg a 16- year-old youth, believed to be a Fascist, was stoned to death by Communists in bathing suita- Reuter.
Vendetta Started
Madrid, Later.
A vendetta between the Fas- cfst and Socialist youth is feared
as the result of what is believed to be an act of vengeance per- petrated by Fascists as a sequel to the fight on the Playa bathing beach yesterday morning when a young Fascist was stoned to death by Socialists.
Washington, To-day. Senator Key Pittman is confident that the Silver Bill will pass the Senate in substantially, the same
A party of Socialists, return- form as received from the House ing from an excursion, yesterday of Representatives, although the evening, were fired on by men in
Smith amendment, removing the a motor-car, with an automatic House taxation provision appears pistol. "... to change the adoption due to the fact that the majority of silver ad- vocates regard it as unfair, and unconstitutional.
Three were seriously wounded. -Reuter
* STRIKE OUTLAWED:
Senators Borah, wheeler and The government in a decree Is. King are scheduled to have a talk sued on May 29 out-lawed a na
of farm workers to-day-United Press, per 8. C. tlonwide' strike
scheduled for June 5 and authoriz Gold Bar Co.
ed the imprisonment of the strik-
STOCK MARKET CONTROL.
Possible Chairmanship For Mr. Landis.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAJL By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra-
ceived June 11, 9,10 a.m.).
Washington, To-day. hic Messages Ordinance, 1894, Re
ers.
TAX PAYER CAUGHT BY DROUGHT
10,000 Farming Folk Destitute.
Mistaking another fishing junk tor pirates, a Chinese on board junk) No. 385H fired at the crew of junk Pan Yan. The incident occurred at Taikoo Chau, which is in British waters, yesterday.
The injured man was brought to London, Jung. G. .Persistent efforts were and are Hong Kong and is now in the Kow- Two men on the being made by them to incite the loon Hospital.
NO DANGER OF FAMINE Il Duce was interpreted as
Sensational allegations against a British Army to mutiny and aed-other junk were arrested.
It was learned this mornitig that ferring to France and her world M. S. Sandwich, the British aloog
in harbour at the No. 1 British Soviet Russian Communist organi- tion. Sir Thomas energetically re-
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL war ally Serbia, which is now
(Dy Telegraph, Copyright, Talspre part of Jugo-Slavia. Mussolini naval buoy, and was taken on a nation were made to-day in the futed the suggestion that state the victim of the affair, is only House of Commons by the Attorney-ments about the danger are greatly slightly hurt and will be discharged has said that France did not give tour of inspection of the vessel.
A warning was issued by the The Federal Trade Commission whia Messages Ordinance. 1895. Re- This is not the Brat occasion on General, Sir Thomae Inskip, during exaggerated and aimed rather, at from hospital, within a few days. to Italy the 'colonial territory which was
the which the Panchan Lama has in-the debate for the suppression of curtailing the fundamental rights of promised under London Treaty of 1915, following spected a British warship. On his treasonable movements within the democracy. It was necessary to re- police on Saturday that a gang of on Mr. James M. Landis, is conceived June 11, 410 am.),
member, the speaker declared, that 16 men, reputed to be pirates, kad sidered certain to become a mem were recently deft Chinese territory ber of the Stock Market. Contral which Italy left the former Triple visit to India in 1905 when His British Army,
The speaker declared that the the British Aghting forces
the Blas Bay Commission, probably Chairman. Alliance and went into the world Majesty King George V, then the
Mr. Landis really wrote the Prince of Wales, was making a headquarters of the organisation are maintained for the purpose of de- from Mirs Bay or war on the alde of the allies. Vi
The volunteers roared lustily state visit to that country, the in Moscow and Communists of all fending England and her laws so area and wer said to be in Hong
These warnings which Wall Street concedes is the and gave a tremendous affirmative Panchan Lama inspected a British countries are systematically trained that the most, radical methods are Kong, for the purpose of commitmove of the 1938 Securities Act, shout when Mussolini-asked them warship in Calcutta, but, judging for flicit activities," capionage, and inperative for the suppression of ting a piracy.
Gold Bar Co. if they were as ready now to march from his expression of Interest on sabotage. After completing their those home and foreign organisa-were also broadcasted over ZBW, most air tight financial law ever
station. to war as they were in 1914 and his inspection yesterday, he could instruction, they are sent abroad to tions aiming at undermining the the Hong Kong Broadcasting passed, United Press, per 8.
hardly have been more impressed, make use of their special knowledge nation's safeɣourds,
1915.
Chicago, To-day,
It is estimated that the cost of the drought to taxpayers is cat lemat US$2,060,000,000 in
prices. relief and increased food
States are almost destitute.
Estimates show that 10,000,000 members of farm familien in 18