MR. A. EDEN'S NEW CABINET POST
Explained By Prime Minister
TO STRENGTHEN HANDS
FOREIGN OFFICE
London, To-day.
In the House of Commons debate raised by the Opposition on constitutional questions connected with the reconstruction of the Government and the appointment Ministers without
certain
of specific departmental status, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bald-. win, referred to the appointment| of Mr. Eden as Minister of League of Nations Affairs.
He said there had never been aj time when there were more mat- ters of the utmost importance for this country, for Europe, and for the world than existed to-day in foreign affaira. He wanted strong a team for that as he could find. The new, Minister was in the Cabinet and therefore! equal in status with other Minis- -ters,
as
Agreement between the Minis) ters dealing with foreign policy and himself and the rest of the Cabinet was very close. He had made the new arrangement as an experiment deliberately to
The former Hong Kong girl and present English star, Wendy Barrie, makes her Hollywood bow in Fox Film's romantic comedy. "It's A Small World." She plays opposite Spencer Tracy in this *scream-line
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
strengthen the department, which Special Russia
GENERAL LI
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1935
ARRIVES BACK.
To-day's Short Story.
AT NANNING Consecration
Chief of Staff's Fatal Accident
GENERAL PAI NOT TO RESIGN
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Lindsay
THE sum3 was nearing the Chrestus didn't quite like the
Twestern slopes when Chres business. He at me the
offering at
tus reached the road branching (religious qualus, though he suffer joff for 'Nemi from the Appianed from nightmares sometimes, Way. He felt very tired. For which were, of course, warnings Canton, To-day he had ridden hard at dawn out from a god. But an General, la Chung-fen. Com- Eame between two police the proper shrine put all that kind mander in Calef of the Fourth offrers, for the Emperor's villa of trouble to rights. Chrestas. at We at Lanurium; and then he had would have slit a priest's throat Group Army, arrived chow yesterday from Canton,been sent to retrace his steps quick enough, if need be, during en route to Nanning in connectowards Nemi, this time alone a raid on a temple-treasury. But
But he was a sturdy fellow used to kill a priest who was tion with the death of Lient-
domg General Yeh Chi, his Chief-of-to feats of endurance, and a day nothing except carry out his work Staff, who was thrown from his 04 horseback would not have as a price made him feel some horse during a morning ride in wearied him out. He had been what disquieted. Nanning last Monday.
given a splendid stallion at: the Some significance is attached to Imperial Stables by the surprised the hurried return of General Li, freedman in charge, and he liked for two days ago it was announced riding. But he was little used to that he would remain in Canton thinking beyond the immediate The death of Lient-General Yeh problems of finding food, drink, or Chi is a great loss to Kwangsi, as women; and the day had bewilder- be was a brilliant strategist and aed him. Bewilderment wearied. highly trusted official He was in
Yet his instructions were simple
.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Apostate," by George Milburn
Besides, only two days ago he
Canton last Saturday and returned enough. He had been given a to Nanning the same day by plane sword and told to kill a man. Ahad. expected to end on the Gross, General Yeh arrived here last sword was to swing through the and he couldn't help feeling that Thursday by air from Changsha air, and a corpse to Be on the there was a trap somewhere about where be called on General Ho ground. There
was nothing so his orders. He had been caught Chien, Chairman of the Hunan unusual in all that. But it was with some friends who wolde & Provincial Government. In the unusual for Chrestus to
do is hard livelihood by waylaying tate Orthodox earlier part of the month, the killing at the word of an Emperor travellers outside the Dockyard he believed needed to be as strong Church services will be held in Chief-of-staff few to Chengtu to and the man to be killed wasn't Gate at Rome, and had been sen- as possible to meet the difficult celebration of the festival of interview General Chiang Kai-even
a politician who'd proved tenced to death. A merchant problems which faced them. 7-1Saints Peter and Paul Patron shek. Chairman of the Nanking seditious, or 2 hanker whose from Ostia had been strangled, Saints of the Church, on July 11 Military Commission. It is said money would come in handy. or and part of his belongings were at 6 pm and July 12 at 9 am. A that General Chiang told General husband who paid too much at- found on Chrestus. Chresins had Moleben will be held at 100 Han Yeh that Kwangsi should strictly tention to the comings and goings been found guilty as a runaway kow Road, Kowloon, at which tes adhere to orders from the Central of his wife. The man to be killed slave and brigand, and as be was will be served, on July 12 at 6 pm Authorities. All members of the Congregation jare invited to attend.
day. British Wireless Service.
SHENG AN PIRATES REFUSED TRIAL
(Continued from Page 1)
An official news agency in Nan- king stated last week that Gen-
was a priest.
NEW U.S. EMBASSY FOR NANKING
eral Pai Hsung-hsi, Second-in- This evening's meeting of the Command of the 4th Group Army, The defence counsel was absent Manuk Lodge of the Theosophical would soon retire abroad. This when the Court's verdict was Society. to be held at the Hong report, however, is purely pro- handed down, but the prisoners Keng Club Annex. Chater Road, at paganda, as General Pai the Site Rented For $3,000 intimated that they would appeal 6 pm, will take the form of 2 brains of the Kwangsi armies, bas ¦ to the Supreme Court at Fort discussion and study class. There no intention to resign at all. Arthur...
will be no more lectures until für-)
VERDICT TAKEN COOLLY [ther notice, but the stude class
None of the pirates showed will be held each week at the same POLITICAL COUNCIL signs of suffering physically. They time and place. took the verdict coolly.
OF KWANGTUNG
The verdict confirmed the sex- Sui Cho, a 27-year-old unem- tences imposed OR Taudien,ployed, was this morning senten- Westermann and Schroeder. baticed to three months hard labour Assembly Members To
Serve Extra Year
Provincial Assembly
men, all of whose bodies were he appeared before Mr BL prolonged by one year; promptly thrown overboard. the Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Ma- ship was commandecred and gistracy this morning
charge of harbouring Yin Kni, 17-year-old girl, at No. 123
diverted to Dairen. →
FANTASTIC PLAN
او
க
2
A Month
20 YEARS' LEASE SIGNED
Nanking.
led out to execution by one of the Tresviri Capitales, he had passed without attention E Etter that
looked ornate and official. But he
was
OR
roused from his state Bethargic defiance by the Treser whispering in his ear
"Cling to that litter and beg for your life. It's a. Vestala.“
Without understanding-Chrestas felt that he was being offered a chance of life. He barched out of the grasp of his captors, stumbled on a cursing Hiter-slave, and, mam-
It is learned that the American Jing his bound hands, burst into an Legation in China will be elevated imploring prayer for mercy. A September, and that the American through the curtain. Chrestas had Ito the status of Embassy in scared, pallid girl-face appeared
**
・the
altered the life sentences of for the theft of a radiator cap
Consulate General in Nanking will never heard of the existence of Gantchi and Muller to death. from car No. 1639, belonging to
at the same time be amaigamated the Vestal Virgins, but he realised. The men were alleged to have Lan Leung, a salesman, of No. 9) boarded the Sheng An at Tangku Yu On Terrace, while the car
Canton, to-day.
with that in Shanghai. After the that the girl in the litter cuald The Southwest Folitical Council establishment of the Embassy, somehow sway his fate. - on June 26. 1933, and to have was parked in Rumsey Boad yes at its 179th meeting held on Tues several Counsellors and Secretaries Her heavy brown hair was pirated it when off the coast nearsterday.
day passed the following resolu- will be transferred here from parted in the middle and crowned. Shanghai. After killing Captain:
tions:
Peiping-
with a wide band, from which a B. Vikhman, the first mate and Chuen Yat-tim, a 25-year-old 1 That the term of office of the The new premises of the Amer-fillet hung over either ear. She the first mate's wife, all Russians. unemployed, was sentenced to
jican Embassy, which have been seemed members
indeed divine In addition to seven Chinese, sea-four months' hard labour when
which will expire on August 14 be rented from the Nanking Branch crouching wretch, her pale face of the Sin-Hwa Trust and Savings smudged out by memories of the 2 That all employees of gov-Bank at $3,000 a month, are locat-image of Mother Iss. He howled erment departments in the city ed near the Gialing College. dewith hope and despair. be required to undergo a course of cording to the plan of the Em "What is it?" the Vestal asked military training and that the re-bassy, the main office building and in a disturbed voice, feebly soft gulations governing the training four residences will occupy only and feminine; the found af dis- to Valparaiso, where it was to be.
be adopted
twenty mow of the entire pre-ftant and desirable life in the ears sold, together with its cargo of
The second proposal was submises, leaving enough space for a of the condemned criminal' "GO ground nut oil, was revealed by had a narrow escape from death Mr. Chow Lu, and Mr. Lin Yuen-
Ho Kuen-tsal, mitted by General Chen Chi-tang, garden and several tennis courts way.
The Legation has signed a con- "He's in his rights,” said, the the prisoners after capture. yesterday morning when a part kai Central Press.
tract with the Sin-Hwa Trust and Tresvir who had The ship, early on July 1, 1933. of a balcony of premises No. 33,¦'
prompted Savings Bank for the lease for a Chrestus, not through goodwill, grounded off the coast of Kokuse-Staunton Street collapsed while
It is under-but out of a strict sense of the re kisho, Hoshigaura, Dairen. The he was walking beneath it. The
Period of 20 years. Astood that the projected buildings gulations. Moreover, he wanted to pirates dashed for shore, three boy was struck by the falling de
Iwill shortly be under construction, see the extraordinary encounter being caught after a brief freedoxabris and admitted to the Govern-
and they are scheduled to be com-followed to its correct conclusions. and two others arrested or the ment Civil Hospital suffering following day.
ipleted in March from slight abrasions.
or April next "He's a convicted · murderer, but year. Chelial Agency.
if you grant him your mercy, he'll have to be freed”
"But I don't know him, said the girl helplessly. "What's he
A most fantastic plan to take Lung Street without the consent the Sheng An across the Pacific of her parents.
A Chinese lad,
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Method of Election To Upper Chamber
London. To-day.
The House of Lords concluded IGNORANT JUDGES DISMISSED done?" [the committee stage of the India
“Murder,” said the official.
"I didn't do if walled Chrestus.
Bill yesterday, after approving Nine-judges have recently beez jan amendment to give effect to dismissed by the Uthmanian He broke anew into lamentations the change in the method of elec- Supreme Court of Korno for fail- and appeals. "It wasn't my fanit tion to the Federal Upper Chaiming to master the Lithuanian In-TT never do anything wrong again. ber foreshadowed by the Secre guage, according to a report in the I swear I, Holy Mother" And he tary for India, Lord Zetland, in semi-official organ Lietuvos Aidas mesnt that vow as he leaned to- the debate last Wednesday.
He said that the proposed changes had been generally ap proved and, so far as he "could!, jjudge, would be welcomed by
the Indian Government .. and ¦ people in India generallyBrie tish Wireless Service.
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Capt. Chen Remains Loyal
10 The Southern Cause
Canton, To-day, Captain Cher Comman Hao, former commanding officer mastermind of of the rebel cruiser Hai Shen, will
{mutiny, has shortly be appointed to command the gunboat Fook On or Fook Yan
captain
Dodgers Overwhelmed though he will still retain his pre-which
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