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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1936
LONG-DISTANCE
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New Achievement In Germany
MEMORIAL TO LATE KING
Premier Calls formal Meeting In Commons
London, To-day. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stan- - CHINA MAIL SPECIAL ley Baldwin, had an informal meeting in his room at the House Berlin, To-day.
of Commons yesterday after- The world's... first long- noon for a preliminary discus- distance television will be in- sion on the subject of the most Sitting form of memorial to his augurated on March 1 between
late Majesty King George the Berlin and Leipzig, according to
Fifth Those present included semi-official announcement
H.R.FL. the Duke of York, the made here yesterday. This
Home Secretar Leaders of the Opposition new achievement, has great
Parties. the Lord London and Lord been brought about thanks to
Wigram.—British Wireless Ser- the close co-operation between the German post office and the television firms.
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Children To Study Labour Conditions
SPECIAL
~CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day.
A novel experiment in High School education will be made at the instigation of the Na- tional-Socialist welfare organ- isation at Liebenwerda, a coal- mining district in Saxonia.
Thirty pupils of the second- ary school will be given the op- portunity to get an insight into labour conditions by living for three weeks with the miners'
The charge for a combined families, and actively taking be opened in Berlin and Leipzig telephone and television com- part in coal production. respectively, and those in Leip munication for the time of In the meantime an adequate zig will be available only to three minutes has been fixed at number of miners' children will visitors of the Leipzig Fair be-3 Reichsmarks. Trans-Ocean be sent to the seaside for
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similar period. Service.
tween March 2 and 6.
UNEASINESS INCREASES
IN SHANGHAI
(Continued from Page 1)
ين.
the following January, he insisted| (on resigning from the Ministry. · "If we call the perpetrators of He also insisted on retiring! these act super-patriots, this by from the Nary, and, declining the
no means indicates a disparage-appointment of Navy member of ment of their aims, but only un-the Supreme War Council, retired derlines the fact that their-pa-to live quietly out of the pube triotic" fervour led them to deedajte: which according to our ideas are ¡reprehensible.”
a
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RUSH CALL TO The PERFECT GENTLEMAN
SPECIALIST
Soviet Mystery Still Unsolved
**CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Stockholm, To-day.
The mystery of the rush call to Moscow of the noted brain- specialist Dr. Professor Olive Crona, who, according to the *MOVING IN”
Allehanda, was Typical of Admiral Okada's sim-newspaper
137-
The paper goes on to say that plicity was his manner of "moving rently requested by Madame the young Japanese officers are in" to the palatial mansion in the Kollontay, Soviet Minister. to strongly opposed to the old states-centre of Tokyo which became his depart immediately, to Moscow men who have hithetro led the official residence as Prime Minis for an important operation on an unknown patient, has not destiny of the country, and their ter...
been solved yet.
At the request of the authori-
detained to allow the surgeon to catch a waiting aeroplane at Koenigsberg, whence the air journey was continued.--Trans- Ocean Service.
feelings can perhaps be best ex- A servant girl accompanied his plained by the passionate speech luggage in a taxicab. It consisted of Colonel Aizawa before the of: 3 pillows, 1 mosquito net, ties the train to Malmoe was United Court which tried him for the cotton kimonos, 1 wash basin and -Artists. murder of General Nagata. Aiza 2 bundles.
The servant unloaded the
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wa state that he killed the Gen-
disappeared eral because the latter adopted articles herself and
into her master's new residence. measures contrary to the recon-
Admiral Okada was, however, of: struction programme and because
agenial disposition and was said: the General had entertained rela-
to be a good exponent of the tions with "old statesmen, bureau-John Kina dance. crats, capitalists and other ele-
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FATAL CAR ACCIDENT
Cheung Kam, a female, resid- THE NAVAL CONFÉRENCE ing at No. 36, Lee Tung Street, ments who had undermined the The appointment as Premier of was fatally injured when she A Navy man who had only just was knocked down by public The paper concludes by sincere retired from active service, na-car No. 2043 in Queen's Road! ly regretting the tragic
events turally stressed the importance East yesterday. She sustained now attracting universal atten-which was being laid upon the a fractured skull, and died soon tion:
Naval Conference due to meet in after admission to the Govern- London in the following year. ment Civil Hospital.
OPINION IN ROME Rome: The military.
coup
At the time of the ratification China on the part of the militaut d'etat in Japan is making a stro by Japan of the 1930 London impression here, where is Naval Treaty. it was Admiral Japanese jingoes.
pointed out that the increasing Okada who attempted the role of The Liberal elements in Japan influence of the Japanese military mediator between
Admiral Taka-
who were victorious in the gea
party may lead to further compli-rabe, then Minister of the Navy Pral election on February 21 are cations in East Asia and eventual- and chief Japanese naval delegate in favour of a halt in further ly. prejudice Great Britain's pre- to the London Conference, and Japanese aggression in China, and paredness in the Far East: Admiral Kanji Kato, whose strong this is resented by the Die-Hards Trans-Ocean Service.
objections to the Treaty ended in represented by the Seiyukai Party. his resigning the post of Chief of which was defeated at the polls
Meanwhile the campaign-of the Japanese Naval General Staff.
Admiral Keisuke Okada
for
that
It then looked as iL Admiral Okada General Iwane Matsui in stood mid-way between the two, thering his Pan-Asiatic Federation but it afterwards transpired that in Canton has aroused some in- DISTINGUISHED CAREER IN actually he was not in favour of terest, although outstanding Kuo-
THE NAVY
the Treaty.
mintang leaders such as Mesara. TRENGTHENING DEFENCE Hu Han-min, Cheu Lou and Hsiao From his very first statement Fu-chen told the General Considerable surprise was felt when Admiral Okada was sum-of policy as Premier, Admiral Sino-Japanese co-operation is out moned from his retirement to the Okada emphasised his intention of of the question as long as the Imperial Palace on July 4, 1934, strengthening Japan's national de-Japanese aggression in China cop- and asked to form a Cabinet.
"The Government,” he tinues. fences."
General Matsui also called on The Army and Navy, however, said, "is going to reinforce and pledged their solid support of the replenish the national defences in Generals Chen Chi-tang and Li heads of Prime Minister, while his appoint consideration of the international Chung-jen, military ment was generally welcomed in situation and the requirements of Kwangtung and Kwangsi respec-
Lively. political as well as financial circles the timfes."
as foreshadowing a 'revival of He followed up this statement Rear-Admiral Inashiro Hoso- the Fifth public confidence in the Govern-by announcing in August that at kaya, commanding ment and ensuring à continuation the Naval talks in London at the Torpedo Flotilla, left here at 8 of Viscount Saito's policies.
end of the year and the Naval am to-day aboard the gunboat Born in January 1868 in Fukui Conference in 1935, Japan would Saga after a four-day visit to perfectare, Central Japan, Admiral be adamant in her demand for Canton, Keisuke Okada was 66 years old the abolition of the 5-5-3 ratio. when he became Prime Minister. At the same time he expressed following the resignation of the confidence that the Confere OKADA SHOT IN COLD BLOOD
Saito National Cabinet.
He graduated from the Naval Cadet School in 1889 and was: commissioned as, a sub-lieutenant in the following year.
would not fail-Beuter.
(Continued from Page 1}"> 1972 ASSASSINATION
FLEET MOVEMENTS Count Nobuaki Makino, born in
Tokyo: The Navy Ministry an- Kagoshima in October 1861, was attached to the Foreign Office for nounces that the first fleet has been ordered to Tokyo Bay and It the greater part of his career. UNDER NELSON OF JAPAN" will be remembered that his house the second feet to Osaka Bay to During the Sino-Japanese War was bombed on May 15, 1932, the assist in the maintenance of ort he served on board the cruiser day of the assassination of the der. Naniwa, commanded by the late then Prime Minister, Mr. Inukai,
A party of the insurgents" of- Captain (later Fleet Admiral) Count Making himself escaped ficers, who visited Count Makino, Toga, who was known as the injury. He had always been a former Lord Keeper of the Privy "Nelson of Japan."
particular object of dislike among Seal, were resisted, but the inva- the extreme Nationalists.
"
In the Russo-Japanese War he commanded the cruiser Kasuga. Then he becaine Chief of the Sasebo Naval Arsenal and, a few years later, Vice-Minister of the Navy.
Promoted full Admiral in 1924, he was offered and accepted the post of Minister of the Navy in the Tanks Cabinet in 1927, but resigned in 1929.
Canton Circles Interested
LIBERAL ELEMENTS THRUST ASIDE
[From Our Own Correspondent?
When Admiral Viscount Salto
Canton, To-day. formed his National Cabinet in The coup d'etat in Tokyo bas
ders, however, captared Count Makino's villa and set it on fire, Count Makino was slightly huri.
SOVIET OPINION... Moscow Sovist quarters, ex- press the opinion that if the mili-
tarists retain power in Japan the outcome will be renewed aggres- sion in the Far East or an inter- Inal struggle among the different parties in Japan, in which the mi- litarists will be, weakened... 80 "REPORTED KILLED-
Printed and Pahlished for the Pro-store, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. May, 1932, Admiral Okada was excited much attention in Ruc- Singapore: The death roll in by DAVID CHRISTIAN WHO, Manager, at 3A Wyndham Street again made Navy Minister, but mintang circles in Canton, which Tokyo is 80, according to uncon- Victoria, Hong Kong,
upon reaching the age-limit has denounced the aggression in armed reports received here.
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