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Since the world war armies have been concentrating on the develop. ment of tanks, which, with machine. guns, constitut: a must formidable opstacle to Infantry movements. Top:
A Heavily armed vehicle de monstrated In Washington, which
SHANGHAI SOCCER
TEAM ARRIVE
LIGHT COMBINATION. BUT OPTIMISTIC TRY-OUT THIS AFTERNOON
(By "ROVER"}
"I WILL NOT COMMIT MYSELF TO GIVE A VERDICT CONCERNING THE RESULT OF THE INTERPORT MATCH. BUT THE TEAM IS AS GOOD AS ANY PREVIOUS SIDE TO VISIT HONG KONG,” SAID MR. C. REMEDIOS, CAPTAIN OF THE SHANGHAI INTERPORT FOOTBALL TEAM, ON HIS AR- RIVÁL HERE, WITH THE 13 OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SIDE, THIS MORNING BY THE R.M.S. EMPRESS OF CANADÀ. Mr. J. Watson, the team's trainer and manager, interviewed soon after the ship had docked, said: "The team is on the very light side and, will not be selected until the day of the match."
monde difficult to htt because of JOCKEYS ARRIVE FOR
ite extremely high speed, in con- trast with the lumbering pace of early lanks. Below: An amphibian auto perfected by the Germans
which could quickly be transform- ed Inte a war vehicle.
POLITICAL SECRECY
ANGLO-FRENCH
CONVERSATIONS
OPEN IN LONDON
BRITISH STAND BY GERMANY
TO BE NO LOSS OF PRESTIGE
London, To-day.
!!
The first stage of the Anglo- French talks. has been completed in an atmosphere of the atmost se- crecy on both sides.
ANNUAL MEETING
Marshall, Needa, Sung
And Encarnacao
Messrs, F. Marshall, V. V. Needa,
Asked what the probable com- position of the team would be,
Mr. C. Remedios, said that Ward,
keeper, would be between the
& young, but very good, goal-;
sticks, while the choice of the two full-backs would fall between |
Shute, Marcal and Lee, while the halves would definitely 'be Symons, one of our lightest men, myself, and H. Madar."
C. Encarnacao, and S. Y. Sung; all! The forwards will be selected from L Greenberg, Boisserie, N. Z. Lee, Collaco, Favacho and H. F. Cher.
of whom are leading jockeye in the North, arrived in Hong Kong to-day
by the RM.S. Empresa of Canada. Collaco is making his third Ma
Mr. Marshall will ride for the torport visit to the Colony, playing Dynasty stable at the Annual Meet his first Interport in 1925 and his Ing a fortnight to-day; while Mr.jaecond in 1981. He is the present
London dispatches intak
that the Soviet government will ask France to extradite Leon Trotsky (left), now in exile there, and will try Georgory Zinoviel: (top) and Lev Kamene (lower) as alleged plotters against the Stalia regime. The latter two, who were arrested in Moscow Mist November, have since been. sentenced to. 19 and 5.years, respectively.
RUSSIA ELECTORATE
PLEA TO SUSPEND QUOTA
Need will be first string rider for captain of the Club Lusitano, leaders SYSTEM ON JAPANESE TEXTILES
Malaria Epidemic
Mr. Eu Tong Sen, the well-known] in the Shanghel Second Division, Malaya race-horse owner. Mr. Mr. Watson, commenting upon Ceylon's Plight During Devastating Encarnacao has been engaged by several members of the team; sald Mr. Ho Kam Tong, and Mr. Sung that Ward, their custodian, will again be seen out on. Mr. Li making his first visit to the Colony Shiu Pang's string of ponies. and was very good.
MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE
American Seaman At Kowloon Magistracy
THREE SETBACKS
SUA
They had had great difficulty in picking a team and at the last moment Suen Kam Shun, S. H. Van, and Lai were unable to come.
"We were lucky enough to have L. Greenberg and Collaco." Ifound very capable substitutes in
We
It is understood that the dis-
"We had a very good trip and the cussions ranged over, the whole; Alva Charles Chown, 42-year-old team are in good fettle, having had field of the disarmament, security ship's carpenter of the .. Pre-
sident Grant, a native of Seattic, hope to have a work-out this after
plenty of exercise on board. and air problems.
The next step will be a series U.S.A., "was this morning brought noon on the ground on which - we of private conversation's this before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the are supposed to play the match, if morning which are expected to Kowloon Magistracy and charged this is possible," said Mr. Watson. be directed towards smoothing with manslaughter of Bruce Lind Interviewed, several members of out points of difference in order berg yesterday afternoon in Canton the team were very optimistic re- to arrive at an agreed communi. Roud.
garding their chances and expressed
que on the whole course talked Sub-Inspector A. H. Elston, of the opinion that, providing they over, to be issued after a full and Tsim Tsa-tsul, Water Police played on a hard ground, they final session in the afternoon. Station, is in charge of the pro- would do well.
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secution.
The case
NO POSITIVE RESULT
Laval Urges German. Adherence
Paris, To-day,
The French version of the Lon-
don conversations yesterday, as
was remanded until Wednesday morning.
THREE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL Three members of the Interport! team are former pupils of the Shanghai, Public School, which has produced most of Shanghai's soccer
Colombo, to-day. The Ceylon State Council has passed a resolution asking the Colonial Secretary to suspend the operation of the quota. system on Japanesė, textiles in view of the grave, hardships caused by the malaria epidemic. -Reuter.
ROOSEVELT KNOWS NOTHING OF W.E.C. SCHEME
MR. CORDELL HULL REPLIES
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt stated. to-day at a press conference that he had heard nothing of the new world economic con- ference suggested by Mr. Cor dell Hull, the State Scretary yesterday.
SOVIET WILL
CHANGE OLD
VOTE SYSTEM SECRET BALLOT TO
·BE · INSTITUTED EQUAL REPRESENTATION THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
Moscow, To-day.
NERVOUS WOMAN AND BLONDE BABY
HELPED INTO TRAM BY 2
MEN ON DAY OF THE
KIDNAPPING
REFUSAL TO IDENTIFY PHOTOGRAPHS
Flemington, To-day. Evidence that he saw two men cross the Hud- son River from New Jersey to New York at 12:40 on the day after the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in 1932 and assist a woman with a blonde baby on board a tram, was given by Peter Som- mer of New York. A further sensation was caus- in the afternoon session Court when a finger-print expert identified certain photographs shown him by the defence, announcing that the photographs were those of Isidore Fisch and Violet Sharpe, the servant of the Lindberghs who committed sui- eide...
The morning was spent discussing handwriting characteris- tles, with the jury sucking coughdrops and glancing round. Mrs. Hauptmana was yawning and the spectators were fidgeting; only Colonel Lindbergh and the prisoner were listening intently, Mr. Trently, the first handwriting expert for the defence, expressed the opinion that none of the ransom notes were written by Haupt- mann. —— Renter.
The witness Peter Sommer said
TRAMP SHIPPING that he boarded the same tram
SUBSIDY Bill's Third Reading In Commons
OVERCOMING PERILS IN EVENT
OF WAR..
London, To-day,
as the woman who was very nervous and as if ready to jump out every time the tram stopped.
The.baby.was covered with
a blanket, which slipped, dis- closing a child wearing a one-piece garment. Sommer stated that he reported the matter to the police on learning, of the kidnapping next morning.
Mr. Wilentz, cross-examining, The House of Commons yester attacked the evidence vigorously day passed the third reading of the and showed Sommer a photo of Government Bill to assist, by way Violet Sharpe. Asked if it was Proposals for electorial reform of subsidy, the owners of British the woman he saw, Sommer re- by the Central Committee of the tramp ships to meet the competitused to say 'yes' or 'no' and tion of foreign subsidised vessels likewise refused to answer 菇 Communist Party will be submitted and to provide for the assistance, similar question regarding the to the seventh Congress now being by loans on special terms, to the photograph of the man... held in the Kremlin, which will ne- British shipowners to Improve tion of the Soviet Union if adopted, cessitate changes in the constintheir merchant fleets.
A semi-official statement says | that the aim of the proposals is the electoral system. A closed Ito obtain the democratisation of
or secret ballot would supersede the old method of voting at open meetings by a show of hands.
The China Mail inkes this op- portunity of wishing all its Chinese readers a Happy and Prosperous New Tar. The next fasue of the China Mail will be published on Tuesday, February 5.
Sommer was still on the wit- ness-stand when the Court ad- journed until Monday. -Reuter. TOUR OF EUROPEAN BATTLEFIELDS Lord Galway To Lay Wreaths
London, To-day.
Lord Galway, Governor design
It is proposed that delegates to the All-Union Congress shall be elected directly by the people, in-
The President of the Board of. stead of Indirectly.
Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, saldate of New Zealand, will leave to There will also be equal repre- that the Government hoped that day for Boulogne to make a tour thatead of the old, system whereby by the shipowners, internationally, sentation throughout the country the steps which were being taken of the war cemetries in France
and Belgium CHA
The tour will last five days and
AUTOMOBILE CODE Interporters. They are R. Madar, Mr. Hull agreed subsequently be delegate was elected for every to adjust the supply to the demand will be of a most comprehensive the left-half, Symons the pivot, and that it would be a good thing. ir 26,000 two workers and one for might achieve their object and character: wreaths will be laid on IN AMERICA
thing or every 125,000 peasants in the rural that foreign Government would the Ypres town memorial, the New be led to give up their uneconomic, Zealand memorials at Gravenstafel aubsidies, “
UNACCEPTABLE TO
given by a special correspondent ORGANISED LABOUR
extended
L. Greenberg, the outside-left. (Continued on Page 12): TEAM DETAILS
W. Ward (goal) .163. lb. 6.0%1⁄2' IL' J. Shule (back) 172:15, 6 ft..
President Roosevelt's were taken to mean that he intenda to proceed with internations! trade negotiations and tariff bargaining of with individual nations-Router.
LOCAL DOLLAR DECLINES
N. Z. Les (forward). 170 16. - 8 ft.
9% ins
C. Remedion (half). 185 lb. 5 ft. 64}
ina,
| The following are members of a French semi-official agency and coming from the agency, says
the Shanghai Interport Football that the conversations led to no,
Washington, To-day. team with their respective weights positive result. They were a
Mr. William Green, President of and heights almple exchange of views, with the Federation of Labour, announc out ever assuming an aspect ofed to-day that organised labour the beginning of negotiations.
would not accept the M. Laval stressed his reasons automobile Code. for concluding the Eastern and Addressing the Senate sub-com- Danubian pacts and declared mittee,, Mr. Green asserted that the that Germany's adherence there-Code had absolutely failed to to would be a vital contribution spread work because the workers towards solving the problem of completed the work in almost un- accurity.
limited hours at the discretion of the automobile makers.
He added, "we will not accept or recognise the Code and will not fyleld on it."-Reuter..
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WEATHER FORECAST
Generally overcast, with some The forthcoming "marriage Isan- drizzle or mist, and moderate north-nounced between Mr. Richard Frank cast winds, was the forecast for Un Hendrik of No. 28, Nathan Road, to-day, as issued by the Royal Ob of No. 62, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kowloon and Miss Natalia Montgomery sarvatory this morning.
Kong
Silver Prices Drop
The local dollar has declined 1⁄2, A. Symons (half). 140 lb. 5 ft. 6% opening on demand this morning
丁 P. Madar (half), 128 lb. 5 ft. 64 at 1/9.
Spot and forward allver, prices
Ravacho (forward) 167 lb. 6.04% also declined 16, being quoted at
24-5/18 and 2447/16, respectively
The London on New York cross-
H. Collaco (forward) 134 165 16
L. Gree
1. Marce
districts..
OFFICIAL ELECTED
and M. Vlas Jacobevitch, one of M. Mikoyan, Commissar for Food
the Vice-Presidents of the Council of People's Commissars, were elected to the vacancies in the Po litical Bureau caused by the deaths of Kirov and Kuibyshev Reuter.
H.K. VOLUNTEERS
Commission For Mr. L. C. Tatham
Continued on Page 12).
CRUELTY TO CAT
European Ladies To Rescue
and Messines, the French Nations!! Cemetery at Notre Dame de Loret te, and the New Zealand memorials at Grevillers and Pozieres-Bri tish Wireless Service,
LIVERPOOL AS AIR JUNCTION
London, to-day-At the in auguration at Liverpool airport of the Air Mail Service to the Isle of A case of extreme cruelty to Man, the Lord Mayor yesterday animals was witnessed at about 11 said that it was to be the forerun cat along Queer's Road by meane vlees operating from Liverpool, o'clock this morning when a young ner of an extensive system of in- Chinese Boy was seen dragging aternal airmail and passenger ser= a string wound tightly around which he foresaw would in the future be the great air junction of
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the grant of a Commission to Mr. Leonard Charles Tatham as Lieutenant," for Hits neck,
Lee Ning (back) 142 16, 5 ft 7 inn. rate was quoted at US$4.87 A. Balerie (forward) 134 1b. 5 ft. as compared with US44.37. service with the Construction Seco European women, who at the north British Wireless Ber-
(forward) 185 Thug 7.526
The New York on London rate, tion of the Railway Operating De-tempted to set the poor animal free, vice was quoted at U.S.$4.87 4tachment Cadre, of the Hong Kong very narrowly escaped belig nevero 148 Bb. 5.fl.,9% compared with US 14.87% Volunteer Defence Corpe, with effect by bitten by the oat which was al-The forthcoming marriage is
5 ft 4The name of Dr. Loh Sing Poh, M.B.,
from
17 1985; maggi most mad with hain,nounced between Mr. Laleh Reverdy, ChE (Hong Kong) has been addad to
John Archibald One of the ladies at last liberal Hong Kong and Mine Markaret Cramer, banker of No, 1 Catham Road, (forward) 145 The 5 ft. the that of Medien i Practitioners of the
uam added to the sted the cat, but in the meantime the Schwald of No. 8630 Brookelde Boule- Colonydy
of authorises
boy had vanished,
yard, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.