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GRUESOME DETAILS OF
'The appointment of
General
Jiro Minami an Japanese Ambaa- sador to Manchukuo and comman- der-in-chief of the Japanese mili- tary forces there, makes him vir tual ruler of the Japanese-advised nation. He is described as an un- wavering believer in his country's imperial destiny in Asia,
REDS ENTER SZECHUEN
SEQUEL TO
ATTACK ON
TSUN YI BASE
More Pursuit Divisions Assembling
CANTONESE TROOPS TO RENDER ASSISTANCE
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton, To-day.
After overcoming the resistance offered by the Szechuen troops, the Reds under the command of Chu Teh have crossed into Sze- chuen by advancing from Huai Jen, Chib Shui, and Sung Kan, Northern Kweichow. An unconfirm ed report of the day before yes- terday stated that Chi Kiang in Southern Szechuen was occupied
U.S. SOCIAL by the Communists on January 15.
SECURITY
FULL PLAN
The Communists are being forced to rush northward into Szechuen, because their base at Toun Yi is being attacked from the South by the Kweichow andḥ Nanking troops. As the Com-l munists are attacking with light|
SUBMITTED
TO CONGRESS artillery and
Five-Point Programme For Legislature
PRESIDENT URGES SPEEDY ACTION ON DRAFT BILL
,ཝཾ ཨ༑ ། ་
FINDING LINDBERGH BABY RECALLED
The "best dressed, women in the world," Mr Harrison Williams, New York socialite, arrives from Paris after another shopping tour. She has “twice been voted honour 67 Parisian designers.
the
three-pounders TROUBLE IN JEHOL
Nanking batteries have arrived Fat Wen Hsien in Eastern Sze-
chuen on the Yangtze River, and will be sent to Chung King, al leading city in that province.
To assist the Szechuen troops in resisting the Reds, the Military | Affairs Commission has sent a Igroup of high staff officers from
to-morrow.
(Continued on Page 1)
JAPANESE TO TAKE ACTION
Tokyo, To-day. It is announced from Mukden
Washington, To-day. Nan Chang to Cheng Tu, provin- CONCENTRATION IN
WEST Commending the social security clal capital of Szechuen, and this plan to Congress, President Roose- group will arrive there to-day or velt emphasised the overwhelming importance of avoiding any dan- ger of permanently discrediting the sound and necessary policy of the Federal legislation by attempt- ing to apply it on a too ambitious scale before actual experience had provided a safe working basis.
Except for the money neces- sary to initiate the scheme of in- surance benefits, it should not come out of the proceeds of gen- eral taxation.
The actual management, ex* cept in the case of old age insur- ance, should be left to the dif- ferent States, subject to the standards established by the Fed- eral Government of sound finan- cial management of funds and re- serves and the protection of credits.
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MALARIA EPIDEMIC
DECLINING
BRITAIN'S NEW DEAL
PRESS OPINION
ON LLOYD GEORGE'S
BANGOR SPEECH
General Satisfaction
Expressed
NO IMMEDIATE RUSH TO BANNER
ched by
London, To-day. Notwithstanding the uncommon interest. and admiration Mr. Lloyd George's dashing birth- day effort yesterday there is at present no indication of a rash of recruits to the "New Deal banner. Liberals cordially back up his attempt to regain leadership: The News Chronicle says it is re-
Detectives are here seen streening every square inch of the ground around the spot near Mount Rose, N.J., where the body of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was found. They were seeking the ́bullet believed to have caused the boy's death to see if it was fired from the gun discovered in the house' of 'Bruna R. Hauptmann,
COURT LEFT HORRIFIED
MRS. HAUPTMANN HAS HARROWING ORDEAL
SITS WITH BOWED HEAD AND TEARS
IN EYES
MANNER OF DEATH CHALLENGED
Flemington, To-day, Though the prosecu- tion in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case has not yet succeeded in pinning either the kid-
markable that a stabestart of RUGBY TEAM COMPLETED napping or the murder
Mr. Lloyd George's authority and vigour has revitalised such a body of forward-looking plans.
The Manchester Guardian, says the programme contains the ful- filment of Liberalism and is the translation of the desires of pro- gressive Tories also, and is as much practical socialism as wel are likely to see ir a decade.
LABOUR CHITICS
On the contrary the Labourite organ, the Daily Herald, says this programme is essentially small and animportant in relation to the exist ing energency.
The Daily Telegraph says his ad vocacy of the rathless use of tariffs la sound sense, for without Protec. tion his milion land settlers would be bankrupt. The Times says that |Mr. Lloyd George is handicapped by the fact that many admirers of his
SOVIET POWER that the Japanese garrison in energy and versatility are not dis
INCREASED
SULIMOV REVEALS POLICY INTENTIONS
da je p
Moscow, To-day. The Soviet Republic can have an easy mind regarding ita eastern frontiers, because the Soviet foreign policy is simultaneously firmly peaceful' and prepared to beat off any presiding at the Commissars attack, declared M. Sulimov,
Council,
He claimed that the Soviets" International power: had in creased to auch an extent, that they were now a factor of primary Importance in every single international problem. Reuter.
ROYAL COUPLE'S HONEYMOON
CEYLON GOVERNOR'S Prince Torlonia Visits
REPORT
London, to-day-The Colonial
London
ence.
(Continued on Page 11.)
Jehol City have decided to take posed to give him complete confid appropriate measures to deal} with the troops under the com- mand of General Sung Cheh
yuan, Chairman of Chahar, who has shown an "utter disregard of the repeated requests to with- draw his troops from the western section of Jehol Province."
•
It is also learned that ́s Japan- eae concentration in Western Jehol is proceeding. Reuter.
H
MOSCOW TRIAL CONCLUDES
Zinoviev Sentent
To 10 Years
KAMENEFF IMPRISONED FOR FIVE YEARS
EXCHANGE TAX
Shanghai Brokers Make Appeal To Nanking
DEATH-BLOW TO TRADE
Nanking, To-day,
*
FRANCO-GERMAN SAAR AGREEMENT APPROVED
Demilitarisation Clauses
Geneva, to-day.
The League of Notions Coun-- "cil has approved of the agrae. ment between France and Ger many providing for the transfer of the Saar on March 12
The most important point in the agreement is that the Saar
will be subject to the demilt tarisation clauses of the Treaty of Versailles.Reuter.
THE SAAR EXODUS
PROCESSION OF 500
ANTI-HITLERITES TAKE WARNING
ARCHER SECURES
LAST VACANCY
IN COLONY TEAM
COPPIN INVITED
AS RESERVE.
ROBERTSON IN PACK
of the child on to Bruno Hauptmann, now trial for his life in the New Jersey Court, all the gruesome details of the finding of the body, which were served up in fullt a horr -loving
The bick division of the Hong public at the time of the Kong Interport Rugby fifteen has
selection of the fifteenth man,
been changed, as the result of the inquest on the remains, which had previously provided the were again brought up in Interport Selection Committee with evidence at yesterday's an insoluble problem.
case
S. C. Archer, who was originally hearing of the selected as the sixteenth man, is against the accused.
The court was horrified
now included in the team as the right wing-threaquarter, while Rigg, who was originally selected for this position, will be his cen fre-threequarter.
Robertson has been transferred
by
the gruesome details
of the finding of the body
to the pack as the only solution to of the Lindbergh baby.
the second-row forward problem.
D. A. Coppin has been invited Women sobbed, Mrs. to make the trip as sixteenth man. Hauptmann sat with her
The Interport team is:-G. P. Lam-
mer: 8. C. Archer, W. H. B. Rigg, R. head bowed and tears in Sarreguemines, to day. H. Griffiths, and B. R. McGilchrist: J. Router's correspondent reports Hutchison and H. C. Merke: F. her eyes, while Colonel that he has just seen a procession Walkden, W. E. Feers, H. O. Bram Lindbergh sat rigid.
Muara
PARTNERSHIP BROKEN
Shanghai Gold Bar and other of 500 men, women and children de I. H. Bradford, LG. Robertson: D. brokers' guilds have telegraphed jectedly trudging to the station, McLellan, J. C. Millar, and E. A. the Government requesting that where they were given a free meal, the enforcement of the exchange and then entrained for Toulonse. tax be postponed, pleading that Their departure has been hasten- the increased burden would deed by a report that the Governing feat the useful functions of the Commission had warned them that exchanges and "indirectly deal a it was unsafe to remain longer. death-blow to the entire commer. They are mostly Germans who had Goldman And Fincher cial and industrial world." taken refuge in the Saar from Hit-
Not Challenging Reuter.
lerism-Reuter.
Rumjahns
HAYATAKA MARU STILL ASHORE
Moscow, To-day.
Crew Return To Ship Zinoviev has been sentenced to
And Cruiser Present 10 years' Imprisonment, Kameneff London, today, to five years, while the seventeen
Chefoo, To-day. Office has received a telegram from Prince Alessandro Tarlanta and others who have been tried with
Efforts to refloat the "Haya- the Governor of Ceylon stating that his bride the Infanta Beatrice of them have been given varying the malaria epidemic is showing a Spain, who were married in Rome terms of imprisonment.staka Maru," which went aground of the north-east. promontory decline in most of the districts, this week, arrived at Croydon by air All the accused pleaded guilty here on Monday have proved un- though it is still every prevalent from Paria yesterday afternoon The court held that though successful. The Governor has appointed a They will spend a few days in Lon they beyonged to the Moscow All the passengers are being special commissioner to codon where the bride's mother, counter-revolutionary group com- conveyed to Wel-hal wel while ordinate relief measures. British Queen Ena, is at present staying Wireless Service.
WEATHER FORECAST
The anticyclone is stationary,
pressure being highest over lower Yangtse Valley; the alon is situated to the
The
"day, as fasued by the Roya ervatory this morning was
British Wireless Service
SPORTING COUPLE TO WED
The forthcoming announced between Alexander
posed of members of the anti-the crew, who were taken off Soviet Zinovief opposition, there yesterday, returned to the shi was no evidence of their connecto-day A Japanese cruiser Hon. Kirov's murderstanding by Reuter
FREE STATE NATIONALITY OND READING.
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PASSING OF SAAR HUNG TO PAIR WITH K.C.C. ACE
TO GERMANY
To Be Transferred
On March 1
COMPLETE FRANCO GERMAN AGREEMENT, REACHED
London To-day
ached
An agreement wa
(By "REFEREE")
The defence has intim- ated that it does not chal- lenge the identity of the body, but will challenge the manner of the baby's
Reuter. death.
HAUPTMANN NEAR COLLAPSE
Flemington, later,
For the first time since the begin ning of the trial guards used fores Most serious challengers to the and jerked Hauptmann back in his Rumjaha cousins for the past three seat after he had interrupted the years for the Colony Lawn Tennis evidence of Federal Agent Siak, Doubles Championship title, E. C, Listen Mister you're lying", shout- Fincher, three times runner-up for ed the prisoner, who was trembling the Singles Championship title, and violently, and on the verge of swoon- L. Gokiman, holder of the Hong Kong ing
counsel Cricket Club Singles title, have Hauptmann's
Imme broken up their partnership.diately apologised and promised to
I understand that, Goldman is avoid a repe but unable to play for business and held the prisoner's arm during the
ther reasons, and that Fincher will remainder of the session.→→Reuter
team up with W. C. Hung,
[of the CR.C.; In this year's Colony
Doubles Championship:
ARMY OFFICER TO WED
guards
G.CH SITE FATALITY
Yau, a Chinese, male, mus
Injuries yesterday"
0 feet: to
frame-
new Govern
tal Pokfulam Road
foot slipped.