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Court
What
PAUL RENNET
CE
NEW ARRIVALS
OF
AUTUMN HATS
Chater Rd, Hong Kong-Nathan Rd., Kowloon.
ITALY WILLING TO DISCUSS COMMITTEE OF FIVE'S SCHEMES
RIOTING IN BELFAST
TANKS DRIVEN
STRAIGHT INTO
HUGE CROWD
SHOTS FIRED IN MAIN STREET
MASKED MEN MURDER INNKEEPER
- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Belfast. To-day. Religious antipathies between Roman Catholics and Protestants again resulted in rioting on Satur day night and Sunday morning. the situation becoming extraor dinarily agitated
In the notorious York Street quarter an innkeeper, was mur- dered by masked men before! the eyes of his guests. Houses owned by Roman Catholics in nearby streets were seriously damaged by stone-throwing. while elsewhere attempts were made to set fire to buildings
Yesterday morning police were patrolling the streets with tanks and armoured cars. shots being fired from the housetopa.. The upheaval began on Friday at a given signal, when near Belast a man playing an accordeon in -the street-was shot dead li
All Saturday demonstrations were going on in Belfast, the first shots being fired in the main streets towards evening. Near the docks
Eren the prospect that Britain will be drawn into armed conflict is not curbing Premier Mussolini's war- like gestures against Ethiopia and here, in the most recent photograph of him to arrive dram Italy, Il Duce is seen sending off a new contingent to Africa to "do or die." Marshal Italo Ballo (arrow), who was "eril- ed" to Africa after his trans-Atlantic flying triumph, is significantly Ducz's "right hand qua
FRANCE'S NAVAL STRENGTH
WAR MINISTER REVIEWS
THE SITUATION
:
RENEWAL OF SHIPS OF THE LINE THE MAIN TASK
“CHINA MAIL
Paris, To-day
At this moment, when the danger of an shooting broke out late on Satar Outbreak of war is so threatening and special day zight, the police being oblig- interest attaches to the question of the rela ed to drive their tanks straight tive strengths of the world's defence forces, an monstrators. Trans-Ocean Ser-interview granted by the War Minister, M. Pietri, to the "Excelsior" on the condition of the French navy has attracted wide notice.
into the crowd to disperse the de
vice.**
COMMUNIST PLOT
IN CANADA
Soviet Government Attempt Fails
PREMIER REVEALS DETAILS
recent
Victoria, B.C., To-day. The Canadian Government has learned that the march of unemployed on Ottawa from Toronto was part of a plot to seize him as a hostage while a Soviet Government was estab lished in Canada, declared Mr.
DIVORCE LAW
IN REFORM IN
THE SOVIET
DRASTIC CHANGES
DECREED
COMPLETE ALTERATION IN PROCEDURE
- CHINA" MAIL" SPECIAL
The
Moscow, To-day. divorce law undergoes
M Pietri said that since the war no country had made such Istrenuous efforts to restore the fighting strength of the navy 123 France French navy
Up till now the consisted of 426,000 tons, not counting two new units, each of 35,000 tons,
whose construction was author-
SIR THOMAS SOUTHORN'S
DUKE OF KENT'S PLANE WINS AIR RACE
Captain Percival Avazges 220 Miles An Hour
ERE
Laudon To-day.
Duke of Kent's aeroplane Percival New Gall, which set up a record speed in the King's Cup-Air Race a few weeks ago, won the air race
from Hatfield to Cardiff on Satur day at an average speed of 220 miles per hour. Captain Percival Was again the pilot-British Wireless Service.
TRANSACTION
THAT REEKED OF COMMERCIAL
DISHONESTY Chief Justice Makes Scathing Comments
TENSION RELAXED
AT GENEVA
BARGAINING MAY END
IN AGREEMENT
DANGER OF PROVOCATIVE ACTION BY ABYSSINIAN ARMY
Geneva, To-day.
of Nations Council, has been
thrust into rule of per-arbitra- but little hope is weld that will be successful..
tor in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute,
Great importance is attached here to a long. Nicholas Palitis of Greece, consultation between Baron Aloisi and Senor former president of the League de Madariaga this morning, in which it is un- derstood Baron Aloisi received a communica- tion from the Italian Government, of which Senor de Madariaga took note and which he later circulated among his colleagues.
It is gathered that the Italian communication dealt with
EUROPEAN
various points of the Committee's proposals, showing where LADY HELD UP
they are considered inadequate and where Italy considers them objectionable. It is understood that Italy is not in favour of] Ethiopia having access to the sea; and has certain proposals to make regarding territorial rectification and the suppression of the arms traffic amongst the tribesmen.
It is regarded as most important that the Italian Gov- erument has now come into the cpen and is disenssing the Committee of Five's plans. It is pointed out that while there are still considerable differences between the standpoints: * of Italy and the Committee of Five, once it becomes a question of bargaining, there is every hope of agreement
POLICY OF
PAHENCE
ADVOCATED
Dedya," in an arti
in the Voce d'Italia, adopts
hat the scheme of the
BY GUNMAN Constable Wounded In Thrilling Chase
·ESCAPE VIA ROOFTOP
The story of a European lady be- ng held up last night by an armed
of Five-does not reckonice on possible provocative actio
who later made his ea- after Bring 5- shots from a and Wesson revolver, in- Fin the
21 to the pe--
H Hamet-of No. 39
DAILY TELEGRAPH by the Abyssinian many, whi Morrison Hill Bead, reports that
COMMENTS
MINIMUM DEMANDS OF PREMIER MUSSOLINI
London: The wording of the
is unlike other national armies, when she was returning home at and thus they have not consi- about 11.45 hat night after visit- dered the Italian security.
Intention Of British Aggression Denied
ing some friends, Chinese male came up behind her and pointed revolver at her. The lady "threw up her hands and dropped a hand- {bag containing $25 in notes and
some toilet articles.
official Italian commimique, London: An official statement coupled with the Italian Gov-issued by the
The man picked up the bag and ernment's subsequent criticism states that Sir Eric Drummond, Road East and Sharp Street. By Foreign Office ran off in the direction of Canal
28 a favourable sign morning papers.
of the League plan, is regarded the British Ambassador at Rome this time the lady victim had by the called on Signor Suvich, Under-given the alarm, and two Chinese Secretary of State for Foreign garage hands from a nearby mo minimum Affairs, on Friday last in order to tor-shop chased the robber, who the Daily communicate the movements of turned and fired two shots at the British fleet and the rein them. Fortunately neither of
Signor Mussolini's demands, according to Telegraph, include:
HO YUE TRADING FIRM
1 More territory than is pro-forcements of men and material them took effect, and the expend- mised Italy. Ised by the Chamber. M. Pietri
WIN ACTION
of the garrisons in the Meditered bullets, have since been pick- emphasised that this was not!
2 Any outlet to the sea for ranean, adding that they were ed up in the ground floor of No. "over-armament" because the "The whole part of the tran tres
Abyssinia must be through Eri- not intended to imply any aggres-16 Morrison Hill Road French fleet was still one-third'saction the defence carried out
sive intention on the part of Bri 3. The Abyssinian Army is to tain, but were taken as a natural
IN BLIND ALLEY reeks of commercial dishones be disarmed and Italy trusted with consequence of the impression ty" declared His Honour, the its reorganisation
The robber than ran towards created by the violence of the Hennesey Road and Jaffre Road. Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- 4. Sufficient territory must be Italian press campaign against Chinese P. C. C108 took up the Gregor, in the Supreme Court ceded to join Eritrea with Italian Britain.
chase, following the robber into this morning, in giving judg Somaliland.
- Signor Suvich said he was an-a scavenging lane, from which ment for the plaintiffs, in an action brought by the Ho Yue, policy of patience and says that Italian military preparations in man then fired two shots at the The Daily Telegraph counsels a thorised to declare that the there was no outlet-- The gun- trading as the Sing Hing Hong, obviously a powerful impression the Mediterranean basin were policeman, wounding him in against the German China Trad- has been made at Rome by the purely precautionary, and had no left arm, and made his escape, ing (Hong Kong) Co.
firm attitude taken by the Coun-aggressive sina, 2:3 Mr. A. el Arralli, who appeared cil of the Assembly. This has (Continued on Page 9)
CONDITION
The Director of Medical and
Sanitary Services and Govern ments Consultants report that Sir Thomas Southern continues to make slow progress. No further bulletins will be issued for a few days..
R. B. Bennett, addressing an drastic reform as the result of election meeting. Mr. Bennett the publication yesterday of asserted that Moscow maintain-the long-awaited report and ed well-paid agents in Canada,proposals of the Council of but Canadians would never People's Commissaries on the tolerate interference in their question of neglected youth, the affairs by outside agents.
When 400 men and 20 women and the procedure in divorce.
alteration of the alimony law recently marched to Ottawa to
Hitherto
on behalf of the plaintiffs, in de been deepened by the mobstrusive air the alleged grievances of necessary for the dissolution of a during the war having lost ship, said that the defendants British naval strength in the Medi-
the only formality weaker than it was in 1914, it scribing the case to His Lord- but striking reinforcement of the OCTOBER REVOLT IN via the roof. the unemployed. Mr. Bennett marriage was a notification by 140,000 tons, including four were importers and exporters terranean, both at Gibraltar and granted a small deputation an either party to a registrar of armed cruisers; and since 1915 On March 20, 1994, the plaintiffs in Egyptian waters-Renter interview, refusing their de wish to cancel the marriage, no serious attempt had mands. No disorders occurred
been purchased from the defendants during the marchers'
whereupon the divorce was regis made to renew these. stay in
{1,000 gross of sewing machine Ottawa and the group dissolvedred officially and the other party COMPARATIVE FIGURES needles, arriving in two lots, with soon after the return match to informed by postcard. From now The British, United States and delivery in 60 days, and after Toronto started Reuter,
onwards an opportunity will be Japanese fleets are all stronger that a month's extension. ziven for the opposite party to be than the French, the Japanese in
On the support of any children will be the other hand France has only August brought before a court
AMBASSADOR IN
NANKING
Leaving For Shanghai
To-morrow Night
Sir Frederick Leith-Boss
(Continued on Page 9)
SPAIN
Nationalist Editor Sentenced
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Madrid, to-day.
heard, and the question of the the proportion of 8% to 7. The first lot arrived in July and STOP PRESS Thirty years hard labour was
(Continued on Page 12)
WEATHER REPORT.
second consignment in On October 18 plain-
10.3 per cent obsolete vessels in tiffs paid $490 to the defendants service, while the Japanese have for taking delivery of two cases 9.6, England 16.9, and Italy over and a receipt was given. On 25
November 15 defendants wrote to M. Pietri added that the chief plaintiffs to take delivery of some A weak anticyclone covers N. task to be taken in hand was the more cases not later than Novem Nanking. To day. China and Manchuria. The renewal of the ships of the line, ber 17, and on that date defen-
and typhoon is situated about 150 since France possessed only Sir Alexander Cadogan arrived miles to the south-east of armoured battleships
old dants went to see plaintiffs as the this morning. Sir Frederick Oshima, moving
two came had not been delivered. north-east. others which were
Leith-Ross is staying at the coun-Another typhoon is situated to the del
try residence of Dr. H. E. Kung. the north-north-west of Saipan,
He called on Dr. King at 11 am, moving west-north-west Light 265 and will call on My Wang Ching westerly or variable winds fair, He will leave for, was the forecast for today, as
wein at 4 pm.
banghai to-morrow night
issued by the Royal Observa-
tory this morning
DELIVERY ORDER
some talk defe
inting would
wo cases and the
ope
An 8-year-old Chinese boy, Wan Ah-kurong * fatally -knocked down by a Studebak car, No 2314, outside No. Lyndhurst Terrace at about
the sentence pronounced yesterday by a Court Martial at against the former editor Asturis ationalist paper for volutionar October
Ocean Service
the
entering the premises at No. 238 Jaffre Road, where he subsequent- ly managed to make his escape
Five empty 28 Smith and Wes son cartridges and a cartridge case have been found in the vi- cinity, and one live mand. "The money has not been recovered.
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