ALL ELEMENTS
UNITED ON THE
KUOMINTANG
Facing Japanese Menaces
TROOPS QUARTERED ROUND NANKING?
[From Our Own CorrespondentŢ
Canton -To-day.
The recurrence of the Jap anèse menace in Shanghai andj Tientsin has had the effect of! uniting all the elements within the Kuomintang, camp, as the Fifth National Congress was attended yesterday morning by representatives from the South- west and other parts of the country.
With the support of Canton as- sured, General Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission, has taken a firm stand towards Japanese activities in China A strong protest was
The Government of Lithuania. headed by Premier Jnossa Tabela
faced recently
a crisis in the plebiscite. Memel
3. Germany threatened a military demon- stration # the vote did not favour Herr Hitler.
lodged yesterday afternoon with THE TROUBLE AT
Mr. Akira Ariyoshi, Japanese Am- bassador to China, with regard to the arrest of Mr. Li Ming, Chief of the Bureau of Social Affairs of the Tientsin Municipal Govern- ment, Mr. Nien Kwang-y20, an of- ficial of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Tientsin, and sever- al newspaper censors. They are Chinese living in Chinese terri- tory and cannot legally be arrest- ed by Japanese soldiers.
news agency
HSIANGHO
No Settlement Yet
With Japanese
GENERAL SHANG CHEN'S NEGOTIATIONS
Paoting, To-day.
AT
"THE CHINA MAIL-WEDNESDAY MOVER
THE SESSIONS FURTHER CAUSE
Utfering Of Forged
Banknotes
THREE CONVICTIONS
deferred.
Sentences Pronounced
*
FOR DISCONTENT.
IN MEMEL LAND
APPOINTMENT BY
GOVERNOR
CONVENTION AGAIN FLOUTED
~CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day-
Wong Sam-mul married wo man, aged 50 stated to have no fixed abode in the Colony, who weepingly protested her in nocence," was charged with utter the a forged $10 note at the The three persons charged at Wing Lang hardware shop, No. 5 the Criminal Sessions with utter-Hillier Street, on October 24
J-Lockhart-Smith ing forged notes of the Chartered Mr. W Bank were yesterday convicted, Wing Tang hardware shop, No. 5 two before his Honour the Chief ducted the prosecution. It was Justice Sir Atholl MacGregor, alleged that she had previously The greatest, indignation was passing another expressed in the evening papera and one before the Paisne Judge, succeeded in s Mr. R. E. Lindsell. -
forged $10 upon a shopkeeper.here yesterday at the report of The jury empanelled in the The jury
deliberated for 15 an announcement by a semi- Chief Justice's court comprised minutes before returning & unofficial Lithuanian agency that Messrs. L. Jack (foreman), G. Tanimons verdict of Guilty the Governor of the Mernel ter May, Loong Tan-yin, F. 1. Sulz-The accused had no criminal re-ritory. M. Kurkauskas, has en- bach, Tsai Wing-kai, G. Watson, cord and sentence-upon her was trusted one of the five Lithuan ian Deputies in the new -Diet, and L S. Castro..
named Borchertas, with the In the first case Tam Sui-hong,
task of forming a Directorium. unemployed, was charged with
Later. "The selection of one of the uttering a forged $50 note, of the
of the small Chartered Bank of India, Austra-Sentence of two and a half representatives
years hard labour was passed on Exthuanian minority is a further Mr. E. Williams, Assistant Tam Sui-hong, who was found provocation to the entire popul Attorney-General, appeared for guilty by a jury yesterday of attion of the Memel territory, SRYE a German news agency, and is in the prosecution, and the accused, tering a forged $50 banknote, by who pleaded"Not Guilty was His Honour the Chief Justice Sir absolute opposition to the pro- defended by Mr. Leo D'Almada Atholl MacGregor, in the Crimin visions of the Memel Convention. jar, instructed, by Mr. H. A. de al Sessions at the Supreme Court to the Hague Court decision of
this morning. B. Botelho. ***
Before passing sentence His August 11, 1932, and finally, to Accused, who had two previous
the repeated and recent solezn
larceny,
Lordship' asked Mr. Leo D'Ahma- convictions for
da: counsel for the accused, Promises given by the Lithuanian | Government to the signatory found gulity, Sut sentence deferred till this morning,
there was any likelihood of the Chan Chok-hung, unemployed, the person who had been defraud It is pointed out that according defendant making restitution to Powers and even to the League
of Nations. who pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering a forged $50 note of the D'Almada answered that he to the
Convention the result of had negotiated with the accused's the election is the only standard relatives yesterday but they had according to which the President refused to make any restitution of the Directorium can be ap pointed and that against five Serious Offence arra
lia and China.
WES
Chartered Bank, was sentenced to two and a half years' hard labour.j Woman Convicted In the Prisne Judge's court the empanelled comprised
ed.
It
- General Shang Chen, Chairman General Chiang is said to be of the Hopei Government, return- calm in the face of Japanese men-ed here from Peiping by train aces in Shanghai An American yesterday afternoon, in company jury
In passing sentence the Chief Lithuanian Deputies there is an at Shanghai has with Mr. Li Pei-chi and Mr. Li Messrs. A Brostedt (foreman)Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, united party of 24 Germans. given out reports that over 200,- Chin-yung, members of the Hopei C. L. Rocha, E. Joffe, Ip Chung-said that he had given very care is curious, remarks the news 000 picked troops of General Provincial Government.
shu, T. Redmond, Pang Fuk-ul consideration to the case and agency, that the Lithuanian Gov- Interviewed upon arrival, Gen- chuen, and L. Gardner. Chiang are massed within a radius
had come to the conclusion that ernor cannot find a President of 50 miles around Nanking ready eral Shang stated that he bad re-
he would-disregard entirely the among this incomparably larger
number.Trans-Ocean Service. to defend the capital if necessary. turned to make preparations for
prisoner's previous convictions. Mr. Chou Lou, the principal de- the winter legate from Canton, arrived at vince. He will dispatch provin Shanghai yesterday morning en cial troops to various districts to route to Nanking. Mr. Chon was wipe out banditry and strengthen elected a member of the presidium the border defences. of the Congress.
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
REMOVAL TO NEW PREMISES
defence of the Pro-"TAKADA” MAKES At the same time you must
LAST VOYAGE
The Hopei Chairman further said he would make an inspection trip to various districts as soon he had attended to more urgent affairs in the capital.
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AN UNDERSTANDING
Long Career Of Usefulness
GOOD WAR SERVICE
realise that the offence of which you have been found guilty is an extremely serious one as affecting the general credit of the Colony."
• Sentence was then passed as stated above.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
The P. and O. s.s. Rawalpindi left Shanghai yesterday and is At the same time, in the Sam-due here on Friday at 6 am mary Court, the. Puisne Judge,
Mr. Justice R E. Lindsell, passed A dinner danse will be held at After 2 years' service in sentence of three years" hard la- the Repulse Bay Hotel this even- Referring to the Hsiangho in Eastern waters trading be bour on a woman named Wong ing. The last bus will leave Re- cident, General Shang said that tween Calcutta and Japan Sam-mn, who was found guilty palse Bay at 1 am in spite of the repeated negotia-with the exception of four years by the jury of uttering a forged tions between him and the Japan- she spent in the service of the $10 banknote. ese authorities до satisfactory Government during the War. settlement had yet been reached the British-India cargo and However, prior to his departure passenger liner, Takada arrived The removal of the Imperial from Peiping, he had reached an in Hong Kong this morning on
London. To-day.
War Museum to its new quar understanding with the latter her last voyage. ters in Lambeth Road on the that the Special Police should be She is now on her way to Ja- south side of the river from sent to Hsiangho and the Special pan, but when she returns to Cal- South Kensington began yester Police units, under Captain catta she is to be laid up untu day. Apart from the transport Chang Ching-yu, were making pre-such time as her owners can dia of the heavy exhibits, including parations for their departure-pose of her.. big guns and tanks, the re Central News Agency. moval involves the checking
and re-arrangement of an enor
rous
ments and pictures, and it is
mass of records, docu-THEFT OF KEROSENE not anticipated that the OIL DRUMS Museum will reopen before -July. *
In the new building it is pro- Government Property
posed to devote greater space to the display of pictures and photographs, of which the Museum possess over 5,000. —| British Wireless Service.
Stolen
Built on the Clyde by Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons, Linthouse, Glasgow, where many
Three cases of diphtheria and two of typhoid fever were noti fied as having occurred in the
ed on Monday
ALLEGED CASE OF Colony during the three days end-
fed on a SUICIDE
SOUTH AFRICAN FOUND DEAD
Shanghai, Yesterday
G. C. Welsford, aged 30, a native
Captain G. Fendson, of No 510
the Peak, was fined $5 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central Police Court this morning for Jallowing his dog abroad without a
muzzle or lead on October 13.
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STEEL COULSON SNOOKER
Da Luz Establishes Record Score
THURSDAY'S MATCHES
of the crack liners of the P. & O. of Johannesburg, was found shot keep of the various free schools LAST
B. L combine have been con-dead yesterday in a boarding-house controls, the T's Men's Club of stracted, the Takada, which is at in the Concession, with a revolver Hong Kong will hold a dioner- present berthed at the Kowloon by his side.
dance at the Roof Garden of the The following are the results years. Indeed, she is still vastly child in Johannesburg, came to November 24 Wharves, does not look her 21 Deceased, who leaves a wife and Hong Kong Hotel on Sunday, of the First Round of the Steel superior, both in speed and sea-Shanghai from South Africa In worthiness, to ships many years 1992. her junior.
HOSPITAL SHIP
The British Coroner, Mr. CEL
morning-Renter.
Coulson Snooker League which were played on Thursday last:
RE WOTE
Seryts. Mess.
60 Slack 33TM Collins 27 Chant
Meas
Biology Department at Hong Kong Smith University at 8:30 pm to-day- Trim All persons interested in local and Leach
are cordially Eroott
The R.E. Sergt. to 2
BRITISH REVENUE tropical fishes
invited..
Finney pay
41 War
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KING AND THE PEOPLE
Two Powers Recognised
In Greece
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Athers. To day. Answering a question by General Kondylis
pressmen,
stated on Monday that the Government denied that there was any truth in the rumours. now germinating about the de- velopments of the internal poli- tical situation
After the plebiscite on Mon 50 day last resulting in the unani. 53mous decision of the Greek peo-
ple reinstating King George IL the initiative for the solution won by 3 games of the inner political situation lay with the King At present there were but two powers in Greece, the King and the peo
The Government recog- ple C.P.O. Matheson 47 Mr. Soares 46mised no other
A Meeting of the Hong Kong At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Lai Yee was charged be-
the Elementary Laboratory of the Digby fore Mr. Wynne Jones with the Immediately after being fitted Haines, is holding an inquest this Aquarium Society will be held in Garrison Sergis theft of 40 Kerosene oil drums, out she was put on the Calcutta- WORK OF DISABLED the property of the Hong Kong Japan service, but was only able Government, from the vacant piece to complete a few voyages before EX-SERVICE MEN of ground in Chatham Road near the outbreak of hostilities. She
the P.W.D. Workshop.
was in the initial convoy which
RETURNS Two others, Li Sang and Wong left India for France, and later Ngau, were charged with receiv- was commissioned as a hospital
Rise In Income And ing, but their ples that they did ship and continued in this capa-
Expenditure not know the drums were stolen city until the cessation of the
War. was accepted and they were ac
Her present commander is Cap-i An exhibition of the work of cordingly, discharged.
London, To-day. tain F. Taylor, who has been her disabled ex-servicemen at the Lai Yee, who pleaded guilty to
The Exchequer returns show Imperial Institute was visited having stolen the drums, was sen-captain during the past five years. yesterday by the Prince of tenced to six weeks hard labout! She will be replaced by the that the total ordinary reventie, Shirala, sister-vessel to the San-excluding self-balancing items, this and Sirdhana.
Visited By Royal Princes
London, To-day,
Wales and the Duke and
Duchess of York The Prince WHARF COOLIES IN went to the exhibition after an all-night journey from Edim- burgh, where he represented the King at the Armistice Day ceremonies on Monday. He examined the exhibits with great interest making-en- quiries at almost every stail
TROUBLE
Implicated In Opium
Case
When Ki Ka and Leung Choi, The Duke and Duchess two coolies, were charged before bought Christmas presents for Mr. Wynne-Jones at Kowloom the Princess Elizabeth and the Magistracy this morning with Princess Margaret Rose. British Wireless Service.
$1,500,000 IN SILVER COINS
HANDED OVERS
(Continued from Page 13
having in their possession a quan- tity of raw opium outside the Yaumati Ferry Wharf yesterd Reveto Officer P. O'Neill / that he did not think coolies owned the
were enga the parcel and this
FORMAL REMAND
GRANTED
Eleven Counterfeit Moulds
Tu: alias Lam Tit-sang, hin-pang and Lan eared before Mr.
amounts to 2852,869,187, compar ed with £346,395,723 at the cor responding date of last year. The total ordinary expenditure, excin- sive of self-balancing items is 5442,326,496, against £422,383,380 at the corresponding date of $19843
British Wireless Service.
AIR DEFENCE OF CANTON
Kowloon Communications Corps
on
Establ
Club
“SILVERHAZEN ? CRO & POS
WRECK
(Continued from Page 1)
Survivors Bold Attempt
ESCAPE PLANS WITH HOME-MADE RAFTS
Manila, Later: Two lead and two sre
of the of the faboard the
rive at Manils
St. Patrick's ந்
C.P.0. Jenner (-40% MrBoss
21 The King, by virtue of re- C.P.0. McGean-60. Mr Martin CPO. Todd 82 Mr. Famall 351ceiving an unanimous mandate C.P.O. Randall 51 Mr. Nuttall S1 from the Greek people, was
politi The C. & P.O's won $ games to nil complete master of the
GM
cal situation, and would choose
2. solution in conformity with
51 the highest interests of the
s-Ocean Service
Catholic Union.
Dockyard Recrea~
tion Club
81
350
Newnham's
ST
Pereira
Sentos
Antonio
Mr. da Laz
The Cath
smiling the hig SCOTE ETER Tecorded in this compe
23 ANOTHER BREACH
OF STATUTE
Special Police For
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