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GERMAN-YUGOSLAV MILITARY PACT REVEALED BY SWISS PAPER
Chinese Officials More
(above) has been appointed head of the British Imperial General Staff.
More Optimistic NEGOTIATIONS AT IMPORTANT STAGE
PEIPING'S WELCOME
TO GENERAL HO SETTLEMENT EXPECTED BEFORE END OF WEEK
London, To-day.
Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Ambassador in London, in the course of his conversation yester- is day with Sir Samuel Hoare, drew attention,
General Sir Cyril 1. Devere learned by Reuter, to the extreme gravity of the situation in North China and the severe pressure put upon China by Japan, both diplomatically and militarily.
AUTONOMY MOVE
IN NORTH PROPOSED RESORT TO DIPLOMACY.
He pointed out that this constitutes a fingrant violation of not only of the Nine-Power Treaty but also of the Covenant of the League. He drew attention to Britain's obligations under both these documents.
Sir Samuel Hoare replied sympathetically and said that con- versations were proceeding between Washington and London He recalled that the British Charge d'Affaires at Tokyo had re- NO HOSTILITIES PREDICTEDcently been instructed to call at the Japanese Foreign Office and
enquire regarding the position.
[From Our Own Correspondent]
PAOTING
Japanese Troops Still In Evidence
Peiping: General Ho Ying-"TRIAL RUNS" AT Canton. Today, chin's special train brought himat While politicians and generals to Kinhan terminus station here have introduced a motion within the city, which station to the Koomintang Central Exe-was heavily guarded by troops, cutive Committee calling for while the police took special Yin precautions. A large gather- military suppression of Ju-keng's regime in Tungchow.ing of high officials met Gen- Nanking dispatches reaching eral Ho at the station, includ-
Paoting, To-day. here late last might stated ing Messrs. Sung Cheh-yuan,
The Japanese troops continue. that General Chiang Kai-shek. Chin Teh-chun, Hsiao Cheng- Chairman of the Military vin, Chen Yi and Hsiung Shih- to stage trial runs along the tientsin - Faoting highway, Affairs Commission, is strong-hui.
ly in favour of resorting to di- After greeting General Ho while the Japanese military plomacy in wiping out the auto-the party entered motor-cars planes are daily seen above the nomous regime.
which, preceded by bodyguards, city.
yesterday:
China All the alarming ru-was to have issued a written arrived - here mours of impending war were statement later last night. merely propaganda to rally the (Continued on Page 9) people to the support of the Nanking Government.
CHINA AND THE WEST
Mutual Appreciation
Through Art
London. To-day."
Forgetting whatever enmity he might feel for the invader as an opportunity for barter presents itself, an Ethiopian kaggies with_xo Italim makter over a native product, battles in rZEİDER="
LAVAL CABINET'S FATE
STILL IN BALANCE BUT GOOD CHANCE CONCEDED
OF WEATHERING STORM
- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
ASSAULT CASE HEARING
Plaintiff Awarded $100 And Costs
ALLEGED UBEL HELD NOT PROVED
Paris, To-day.
ALLEGED POLITICAL
INTRIGUE
PLANS IN EVENT OF ANGLO-ITALIAN WAR
INDIGNATION IN BERLIN
·CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Rome, To-day
The expectation that yesterday's Cabinet meeting would result in further stringent mea sures calculated to strengthen the Italian de fence against sanctions were disappointed, it be ing officially announced that the Cabinet Coun- eil merely attended to current business and did not deal with political questions.
The most noteworthy among the decisions taken were upon bills providing heavy penalties for hoarding, the undue raising of prices and other disturbances of the domestic market, as well as for violations of the decrees restricting exports and imports and of the laws regulating transactions in foreign currencies and securities.
Berlin: A semi-official statement issued here yesterday calls attention to a particularly vicious falsification published by the Swiss newspaper Basler Nachrichten The paper claims to have received from an informant who has just returned from Yugo- slavia news to the effect that the representatives of the German Government have concluded an agreement with the Yugoslavian Government, providing that Yugoslavia should, in the event of an Anglo-Italian war, re-conquer "her territories, especially in Istria
According to this mendacious the first encounter be tween Yugoslav and Italian frogs is to take place on Aus trian territory, thus affording ory opportunity to Germany an intervene. Hungary would re- main neutral, this having been agreed to by the Hungarian Premier, General Goemboes, during his recent visit to Ber-
Germany is stated to have given
quiesce in Yugoslavia's, obtaining
the southern part of the Anatrian province of Carinthia, while the Austrian province of Burgenland
WARNING TO TRAFFICKERS TARKS
Criminal
ention Possible In America.
Washington, To-day. Mr. Corded Help Secretary State, has sharply warned: all fruss and individuals handling
arms
and-samitions (who have hitherto failed to register as TE- quired by the Neutrality Act. Mr. Hull hopes that their faire is due to inadvertence, but states that after a short time the defaui- ters will be critsinady prosecat- ed Betzer...
TO CROWN
Wakefield's Bequest Disregarded
The fate of the Laval Government Cabinet is still hanging in the balance, the debate on the The Union News, a well-carried General Ho Ying-chin to Following the trail of thei informed local agency, predict his former residence on the edge Tientsin-Pacting motor road, Fascist unions, which began yesterday forenoon ed that there would be no Sino- of the Southern Lake of the 21 Japanese soldiers, mounted and continued in the afternoon in an atmosphere an assurance that she would ac- Japanese hostilities in North Forbidden City. General Ho on two trucks and fully armed of unabated excitement having been adjourned
from Tientsin
at 7 pm. until to-morrow forenoon. After a short stay, they pro-
After the Communist M. would fail to the share of Eun- LOYAL ADDRESS ceeded to Jerchiu, a town south TA KUNG PAO" BANNED
Ramete and the Radical Social-gary. of "Paoting. Central News
ist M Guernut had sharply Officials here are not insist:
Authoritative quarters in the Peiping:
authorities Agency. The
criticised the Government in
German Government emphatically ent on suppressing Yin Ju-have banned from Peiping the
the course of the morning se declare these reports and conjec keng by force. They are more Ta Kung Pao, known through-
sion, the Radical-Socialist interested in asking the Cen-out the country as a fearless.
Bucart and the Socialist Valieretures to be entirely devoid of tral authorities to refund the joutspoken organ of Chinese
continued the attack in the foundation and to constitute a Treasury bonds
foul attempt to poison the politi- floated here public opinion, whose scholarly
afternoon sitting Ma
BALDWIN'S PEACE APPEAL cal. atmosphere -- an attemat eight years ago. as they need and informed editorials are!
It is stated that M. Bacart sub which must be peremptorily re- money for various administra-read widely.
mitted the folowing resolation to jected and, condemned. ---
London, To-day. Trans- tive purposes..
The cause of the banning of
the Radical-Socialist group, to be Ocean Service. With the prolongation of the the paper from circulating in
Despite his request that his tabled in the House on behalf of South-west semi-independent Peiping appears to be an editor- The Chinese Ambassador,
PARIS TALKS CONTINUE - Rugby international prowess regime, criticisms by Canton of ial 01 yesterday's edition speaking at the Government din- "I am entirely in Mr. Arcalf's the party "The Chamber is deter-
be forgotten now that he was a London: It is understood that serious politician, Mr W. W. the Central authorities will be strongly advising General Sung ner in
connection with the favour and can see no evidence mined to support only a Govern- come less frequent, each side Cheh-yutan, Chairman of the Chinese Art Echibition, referred that the alleged words used by ment which is ready vigorously to the Abyssinian conciliation talksWakefield, the mover of the minding its own business. Chahar Provincial Government, to the generous support given to the defendant at the time of the defend the Republican institutions between British and French ex-Loyal Address to the Crown at A perts at Paris are progressing the opening of Parliament, was do nothing likely to split the Exhibition by the Chinese incident were meant to be slan-and maintain public order.”. PRISON BREAKS China territorially. Beuter:
· RACE AGAINST TIME Prime Minister. No Chinese could derous, but find that the assault: similar resolution was passed by favourably. It is stated that the bombarded with sporting refer- Shanghai: The N.YEK m.v. help but feel enriched in his own as detailed by the plaintiff was the Chamber in 1899 after Pre-points on which the two experts ences Tatusta Maru arrived here this sense of his country's art by the committed, and give judgment sident Loubet had been molested differ are not fundamental, and
depth and catholicity that the on that ground alone for a by Radical elements at. Auteuil the experts may complete the Barrie, congratulated Mr. Wake- morning a day late, having English appreciation and critic sum of $100 and costs," said racecourse, and the resolution work by the end of the week called specially at Nagasaki to take aboard 504 Japanese third is revealed of Chinese painting. Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsel, sit- then led to the overthrow of the
carving and moulding.
ting as Puisme Judge this Dupay Government. class passengers. It is an open The Exhibition commemorated morning at the conclusion of (Continued on Page (1) secret that they are making z the creat fact that the sense of the case in which Mrs Han- rush trip to Shanghai to obtain the merely quaint and curious man claimed the sum of $1,000 silver before the measures pro has gone for ever, as between for lander, and assault on Octo- posed by the Japanese authoriChina and the. West, both ways, ber 3 at Jimmy's Kitchen, ties in Shanghai to check them in other matters than the Lockhard- Boad, Wanchai Eleven desperate convicts figur- smuggling of the metal from
From Mr James MacPartland, artz Reuter ed in two prison breaks which re China to Japan can be made
Idefendant. sulted in three people being killed effective Reuter, and three seriously injured. In NO INTERFERENCE
Mr. A. el Arcilli appeared on the most desperate exploit staged Tokyo: A Foreign Ofice spokes for an hour, tell Chinese press behalf of the defendant, while men that the National Govern MA Mackinley of Mesară.
IN USA.
Desperate Exploits Staged
LORRY DRIVER CLUBBED TO DEATH
New York, To-day.
to
in Boston: for a long time five man declared that Japan has ment has evolved a plan for the Deacons, was for the plaintiff. convicts bludgeoned mad killed a intention of interfering in the ement of the North China lorry-driver, cnumandeered" --the Quo-Hosre conversations. He add- lorry, smashed three sets of gates ed that the Nine-Power Pack is dispute, and that the plan will be and reached a road where they not involved in the North China annonaced shortly.
were rounded up and
Abandoned the lorry.
SETTLEMENT PLAN
Later:
Generat
HUSBAND'S EVIDENCE. When the bearing was
and of th
It is leximed that Messrs. Taso suumed this morning, M
Sich
ALLEGED TAKING OF BRIBE
Sanitary Inspector Summoned
Clark was this morning
Sanitary Inspector -1.
the Central
from. In between the June 15.
The seconder, Sir
Charles
field 4. his fine run. - Major
It is believed that they are not Attlee, after a reference to the working on a plan involving large King's bereavement, said that the territorial concessions to Italy, all had come to Mr. Wakefield but are developing in detail the soon after he had joined the proposals of the League CommitGovernment pack, and he had im- tee of Five giving Italy consider sible economic advantages as well!mediately made his mark. as the cession of Ogaden.
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OBITUARY
Major - Alfies complained that the Government IVES - treating Covenant
in exa
Mr Henry J. Clarke T
Of Shanghai
know
burned till of the
Shanghai To-day.
the same way *The other Powerg He was able to see how a seltä ment acceptable in Italy, AbyssİNİR. and the League" could be reached.
like izlome referring to an epider of house
he hoped to a settlement agrerable to the house- the householder and the
the well-fbre resident and one Home members of the Stock Exchange, died yesterday in his cres Froom the Shanghai Chab. He was the District Grand Master of pears for the District Grand Lodge of Engu
Thiles
Beater