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INTIMIDATION OF HAUPTMANN DEFENCE WITNESSES CLAIMED
ENTENTE
LEAGUE
PRAISES
FRANCO-ITALIAN
PACT APPROVED
COMMENDED TO NOTICE OF OTHER COUNTRIES
Geneva, To-day. General approval of the Franco Itallan agreements was on Saturday given by the League Conference on the Balkan Entente between Turkey, Greece, Jugoslavia and Rumania, which re- affirmed the solidarity of the Entente and expressed the hope that the Franco- Italian agreements will be supplemented by a considera- tion of the situation by all countries interested in the peace of central and south Europe-Reuter,
AUTHOR PASSES
Schoolfellow Of Kipling's
MICHAEL A. E. WHITE
New York, To-day. The death is announced of the author Michael A. E. White, a schoolfellow of Rudyard Kiplings. He had travelled widely in the East Reuter,
Michael Alfred Edwin White was born at Ahmednegar, India. in 1866, and, was educated at the United Service College, Westward He subsequently Ho, N. Devon. settled in New York and from 1899 onwards contributed numer ous Action stories on India and other subjects to the magazines.
FUNERAL HONOURS TO TANG CHAK-YU
Burial On Thursday
Canton, To-day, It is announced that the remains of the late Mr. Tang Chak-yu, member of CS.C., the National Government, and the South-west Political Council, will be interred on Thursday.
By order of the South-west Po- litical Council, homage will be paid to the deceased at the hall of the Provincial Assembly
and
to-morrow
OD Wednesday. Central
LOCAL ESTATES
Kwangtung Merchant Leaves $83,400
These Soviet leaders revised the rule of "a life for a life. they deposited the ashes of their assassinated comrade, 8. M. Kirov, in the wall of the Kremlin, Moscow. More than 100 ̊ op- ponents of the Communist regime were shot in retaliation for the
Kirov shooting. Left to right are: V. M. Molotov, Premier; V. M. Voroshilov, Army and Navy Commander; J., V. Stalin, Dielator: M. I. Kalinin, President.
A new close-up of Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who is presiding at the Bruno Hoopt. maan murder trial in Flemington,
N.J.
DEBT PAYMENTS
MORATORIUM
Shanghai Petition Turned Down
SILVER MOVEMENT
AND EXPORT
Kwangtung Ignores Nanking Ruling
PREFERS TO ISSUE OWN REGULATIONS
[From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, To-day. Again adopting a different course from that of the Central
AUSTRIAN ANXIETY
HEIL OTTO
PAMPHLETS
IN VIENNA
MONARCHY REPLY TO NAZI CHALLENGE?
Vienna, To-day. Germany's Saar victory is believed to have alarmed. Aus-
trian official circles,
who are now boost- ing a monarchy in order to offset the Nazi challenge.
Additional evid ence that the propo sal to make Arch- duke Eugene Pre-
The latest picture of Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, who still has hopes of being ruler of Austria or Hungary, shows him (right) with Marahal Francet d'Esperay at a meeting of the French Geographic Society in Paris. Archduke Otto is new 22 years of age.
SENSATION BY REILLY
THREATENING
TELEPHONE
CALLS MADE
VIOLENCE TO THE WITNESS AND HIS FAMILY
FLEMINGTON, TO-DAY. WIDESPREAD PUBLIC IN- DIGNATION HAS BEEN AROUSED BY THE DISCLO- SURE, BY MR. EDWARD REILLY, DEFENDING COUN SEL IN THE TRIAL OF BRUNU RICHARD HAUPTMANN, THE NEW YORK GERMAN CAR- PENTER WHO STANDS AC- CUSED OF THE KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF THE LIND- BERGH BABY, THAT TWO AT- TEMPTS WERE MADE YES. TERDAY TO INTIMIDATE WITNESSES FOR THE DE- FENCE; ONE OF WHOM RE CEIVED MESSAGES BY TELE- PHONE THREATENING VIO
FAMILY: UNLESS HE KEPT HIS MOUTH SHUT-REUTER.
sident begins a big MASTER CROOK GAOLED LENCE TO HIMSELF AND HIS
monarchist drive is afforded by the noc turnal distribution all over Vienna of pamphlets similiar to those formerly used by the Socialiste and Nazis, but this time - they are stamped Ren- "Heil Otto."
Authorities, the Provincial Depart-ter ment of Civil Affairs has notified
MONETARY CHANGES IN SAAR
Reichsmarks Exchanged For Francs As From Yesterday
Berne, to-day.
By an agreement concluded here the exchange of reichs- marks for france in the Sacr begins immediately.
The francs will be placed in the Bank of International Set- tiemente at the disposal of. France, and will be credited
mines, according to the provi sions of the Versailles Treaty- Reuter
all county administrations that the REPORTS NONSENSE towards the payment for Saar regulations governing the export of silver are those issued by the Kwangtung Provincial Government and not those annouced by the Nanking Ministry of Finance.
The rules published by Nanking|*- are that no person is allowed to export more than $50 from the country (Including exports beyond the Great Wall) and that movement of silver to any place within Chine Is restricted to $1,000. Such regu-| lations are enforced in many places
Baron Wiesner Accuses Von Papen For All Rumours
STARHEMBERG SEES PEACE MOVE
Vienna, To-day,
Archduke
The talk about
in China, but not in Kwangtung Eugene la pure nonsense, asserts Baron Wiesner, Monarchist. re- and Kwangal
ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERY
Police Doubts Following Contradictory Reports
DON JUAN OF CRIME
Rich Wife Fleeced
Of £27,000
“WAY WITH WOMEN" BOAST
IMPROVEMENTS AT HONAM
Inner Harbour Bund Completed
57. WHARVES PROJECTED
Sentence of nine years penal set- vitude was passed at London S
Canton Tó-day. “ sions on a man who has already As the band of the inner har served a total of 10%1⁄2 years and boür at Honam has been complet- whom Scotland Yard described as ed, the Municipal Bureau of Pu
blic Works is now contemplating
ja dangerous criminal
He was Robert Delaney (88), an the building of wharves. engineer, who pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property.
Sir Percival Clarke, the chair
man, said to him.
According to the scheme outlin-
ed by the Bureau, 57 wharves of classes will be constructed along the bund from the sweat, "You are a menace to society. point of the inner harbour to the There is no doubt that you used the Halchu Bridge. First-class wharves services of a young lad to enrich for ocean luer are four in
in number:- second-class for Canton-Hong yourself."
Sentence on a woman described Kong and Canton-Macao liners, s as Olive Helen Lousia Delaney, Ave; third-class for comparatively aged 82, who appeared with De smaller vessels, four; fourth-class for towboats and junks, 27; fifth- laney, was postponed.
class for goods-carrying boats, 27; and sixth-class for ferry-boats, tight.-Central Press,
"$1,000 RAID BY A BOY"
Delaney pleaded not guilty
to
KWANGTUNG IRON AND STEEL
Four robbers, two of whom Regulations made by the Kwang-presentative, adding: "The man tung Provincial Government atipu-responsible for the Hapsburg: re-were armed with revolvers, stole late that the export of silver shall storation rumours in Austria is 13 piculs of salt, 16 piculs of inciting a sixteen-year-old boy not exceed $20 by any one person Herr von Papen, who is aiming sugar, and one sampan at 7 pm break into the Royal Palace Hotel while a consignment from one place to create an artificial pro-Haps-on Saturday, according to the Kensington and this charge was to another within the province is not burg movement in order to pre-owner of the sampan, but, owing not proceeded with... ́ ́
(Continued on Page 13) The petition of the first special confined to any specified amount. tend that Austria is dangerous to to contradictory statements when European peace." Prince Star- at the police station, the Police (Continued on Page 9.)
hemberg, the Vice-Chancellor, are Inclined to believe that the NAVAL MARATHON Plenty Of Ore To Keep addressing 2,000 subordinate Chinese Maritime Customs seiz- leaders of the Heimwehr, declared the cargo.
Shanghai, To-day.
Idistrict Amalgamated Street! Unions for sanction of the pro-
$500,000 SILVER CONSIGNMENT
posed one year's moratorium for debt payments of 1934 has been turned down. Mr. Wu Teh-chen, the Mayor of Greater Shanghai,] in an interview, declared he had
Colony's Contribution Ho U Shang, retired merchant, no sympathy with the mora- Tate of Si Chiu Village in the Ching torium plan.as a method of pre-
To Shanghai Shan District, Kwangtung, who venting a major crisis in Shang- died on October 23, 1932, loft local hal business because, in itself, it
Shanghai, To-day. estate valued at $88,400.
contributed to the violation of the The consignment of silver from Letters of aministration have traditional custom governing Hong Kong scheduled to arrive been granted to Ho Li-ahi, concubine, good faith among Chinese com here to-day by the, as President Julia Sager, alias Juliette Sager, mercial and industrial interests. McKinley, amounts to $500,000 alias Juliet Sager, late of Ho Tung-Reuter.
Reuter. Mansions, Kowloon, who died at the
Kowloon Hospital on March 12, 1984,
Jeft local estate valued $7,500.
Cecilla Forres, married led to London's Water Buses
Probate has been granted
woman,
Char Po-che, late of 4 Tun Yes
Lane, Canton, who died on October
Early this year water buses will They are being built of steel;
7, 1984, left local estate valued at be plying on the river, between Put- The fares on the water buses will
$27,200. Probate, has been granted ney and Woolwich, making calls at
to Chan Hon-ting.
EUROPEAN IN CAR MISHAP
IN FANLING DISTRICT-
A Chinese
Kwant
knock
Par workout at a penny, a mile.
End,
every important place en
They will stop at Chelsea, at nington near the Oval- eri ground, Lambeth, at
* RACE TO-DAY.
Contest For Crews Of Small Ships
New Works Busy
DEMAND WILL ALWAYS EXCEED SUPPLY
Canton To-day, Concerning the "questions" as
led that the return of the Haps. The sampan owner stated that burgs to Austria would secure he left Ching Shan Keuk, with peace in Central Europe, but that three other junks, last Monday, when the question ripens it will and that, owing to stormy wea be solved by the Heimwehr, not thur, le had anchored off, Leung by the legitimists. Reuter Ku Tan on Saturday. He then A small ships, Marathon race wil
(Continued on Page 2). said shots were fired from the bo run this afternoon, starting at 4 how to get raw materials and shore and that, the people in his o'clock from the China Fleet Club how to create a market, for the sampan were ordered ashore and finishing at the same place, products of the proposed iron and where they were bound while The Commander-in-Chief, Ad steel works in this province, the covered by the two men with remiral Sir Frederie Charles Dreyer, establishment of which is being planned, an engineer of the Pro- K.OB., K.B.E., is expecte
vincial Department of Recon- No arrests have been made present.
struct has published a state- ment in the vernacular press that such problems have been solved
ITALIAN FINANCIAL DECREE
FOREIGN CREDIT DECLARATION
Rome, To-day..
A new-financial decree extend- ing the scope of the measures! acted last December citizens to declare any credits in their posse three months, -wh Corn
FORECAST
volvers
Rationalisation Practices
With ard to raw material, he that It
the "Gold Clause case. This is said ely to Invite stábilisation advances rom the gold bloc
balances are
to get
large
NGSON