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TOKYO BACK TO NORMAL FOLLOWING SURRENDER
NEW PACT RATIFIED
APPROVED BY
CHAMBER
French Government's Responsibility
QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE. OVERLOOKED
**CHÍNA MAIL SPECIAL
Paris Today.
The ratification of the Franco- Russian Pact was approved by the) Chamter by 353 votes to 164- Ig the decision accordance with
taken by the Cabinet Council carlier in the day. M. Sarraut had made the ratification a question of confidence The assurance is given that this was not done to exert any pressure on the Cham ber, but it was felt that the Gov. ernment should take the full re- sponsibility.
It is recalled that the Soviet Ambassador. M. Potemkin, was received by M. Flandin yester- "day, and tendered-the informa- tion that the Soviet Government would "consider it as friendly act if the question of confidence is not raised."
'an un-
REGRETTABLE MISTAKE. After the Franco-Russian Pact was ratified, it was discovered, to the general surprise, that in the rush of the moment the Govern ment had not put the question of confidence, as previously decided
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SANCTIONS
FRENCH ATTITUDE
UNCHANGED
Paris, To-day.
A Munich beer waggon made of snow. During the last cold win- try apell Herr Sailer, a house-painter, made this strange snow sculpture at The successful piece of workmanship met Sendlinger Place in Munich.
.The well-known "Munich Kind" is, of course, with much admiration. not lacking in the "four-in-hand."
COMPANY MEETING
.
THE TRAMWAYS
GRIEVANCE.
Govt. Action With Regard To Buses
COMPANY NOT INFORMED OF CONCESSION
At the annual meeting of shareholders of the Hong Kong Tramways Ltd. which was held in the Board Room of Messrs Jardine, Matheson Co., Ltd.. this afternoon, the Hon. Mr.
occupie }J. J. Paterson, who
the chair-made reference to "the sudden announcement that the Government had permitted the China Motor Bus Company At a meeting of the Council of to introduce second-class fares! Ministers, presided over by M. te on routes competing with tram brun. yesterday morning, it was cars."
Amongst those present were decided that the-Government's at
Chow, Messrs. titude to sanctions at Geneva will Sir Shou-son
be "the maintenance of the pre-M. T: Johnson, Choa" Po-sien. vious engagements. This means A. H Compton, F. A Joseph
co-operation in
any
collective Directors), L C. E. Bellamy
FRENCH ATTACK ON KARAKORUMS
Expedition Arrives in Bombay
Bombay, To-day.
The French expedition to at- tack the heights of the Kara- koram Mountains, in North Kashmir, arrived yesterday. The expedition intends to establish a base camp on a glacier 12,000 feet high, and 12 camps will be to tive laid along the trail summit-Retter's Bulletin Sez- vice.
TITHE RENT
CHARGES
Proposed Abolition In England
COMMISSION'S PROPOSALS
ADOPTED
London, To-day.
TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM STREETS
THREE CANDIDATES FOR PREMIERSHIP
SCARE IN FRANCE
Tokyo, To-day."
Following the announcement that the rebels were returning to their barracks yesterday morn- ing, Tokyo last night resumed its normal life. The theatres and cinemas reopened and the troops guarding the public buildings were with- drawn.
Speculation is rife as regards the appointment of a successor to Admiral Okada, in which connection three names are promin- ently mentioned: Prince Konoe. President of the House of Peers. Admiral Yamamoto, Supreme. War Councillor, and General
Mazaki, former Inspector-General of Military Education, one of the victims of the army purge which led to the assassination of General Nagata on August 12 last.
Paris: The spectre of the Tokyo rising leading to a Russo- Japanese war, a German attack on the Soviet in the rear and France being dragged in to help the Soviet against Germany has appeared to fertile imaginations after the vote on the Franco- Soviet Pact last evening.
JAPAN'S AIMS IN CHINA
South-West Leaders'
Opinion
*
OF REBELS
Mr. Kiyoshi Takahama, the famous Japanese "Haika" poet. abore who is passing through the Colony on the Falcome Maru, en route to Marseillen.
DEADLOCK AGAIN
LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE
Italian Withdrawal Foreshadowed
FRENCH ATTITUDE MAY BE AFFECTED
· Landen, To-day. Mr. Eden held a meeting yester- day with the German Ambassador and the First Lard of the- Admir- alty, at which Mr. Eden hoped to secure German adherence to any agreements which may be resched at the London Naval Conference.
Mr. Eden als met Signor.. Grandi, the chief Italian delegate to the Naval Conference, yester- day afternoon. Reuter's Balle
JAPANESE POET Service.
IN COLONY·
ITALIAN WITHDRAWAL? Londen, Later: Italy's depar
Famous Exponent of ture from the Naval Conference is
The "Haikuč
MR. K. TAKOHAMA
foreshadowed by an oficial state- ment after the meeting between Signor Grandi. and Mr.. Anthony Eden, which says: "Owing to technical difficulties like the size
Intransigeant refers to the talk of a secret Japanese-Ger- Mr. K. Takohama, Japan's most of battleships and the question of man treaty and suggests that famous "Haiku" or hebdomodeka the gap between battleships and syllabic, poet, arrived in the Co-cruisers, as well as on account if in the event of a Russo-Japan tony this morning, accompanied by the difficulties of procedure, the
Mar Italian delegation intimated to ese war Germany might take his daughter, ex route to
day that they were not prepared advantage of the difficulties of seilles by the 3.5. Hakone Maxru.
Sixty-two years of age, Mr. That present to enter into a naval the Soviets to make a success-
kohama is making his second visit agreeme to Europe in order to visit his The rap relates to the 20- POSITION WATCHED WITHful anti-Communist crusade.
The paper
asks that if Ger-)
son, who is studying music at the called non-construction area b GREAT INTEREST
many attacked the Soviet in
Paris Conservatoire, and who is tween the largest croiser of ^8,099 tons and the smallest battleship Liaison with Japan, would not
of 20,000 tona The dificultien of France be forced to intervene,
procedure are derstood to r and concludes: "It is more than
late to political issues and the Further Japanese military ever necessary to concentrate on
existence of sanctions. activities in China are foreseen four defence and the strengthen- by observers here in close touching with affairs in Japan, as the militarists and Fascists whol killed the Premier and other high officials. are committed to
From Our Own Correspondent)
Canton, To-day.
of
collective security."
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TRAFFIC SUSPENDED Tokyo, Later: Traffic in the
a policy of continental invasion vicinity of Hibiya Park where at the expense of China,
the majority of the occupied
CHINESE CONCERN
CHOLERA RAGING IN SIAM
Hundreds Dying Every Day
Singapore, To-day. Cholera is raging in Siam and hundreds of people are dying daily. Bangkok has been declar
ed an infected port and air pas sengers from Bangkok are in- oculated before coming aboard The Siamese Government is spending hagë stims in preven- work-Beater's Bulletin
tive
Service.
It is now understood that the conference contemplates tinuing on a three-Power basis.
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-CO-ORDINATION OF DEFENCE
Important Scheme Outlined
arranging for his father's tour of MR. BALDWIN'S STATEMENT. the European capitali.
IN COMMONS
Recognised as Japan's national poet, Mr.. Takohama would have been made Poet Laureate had
Messrs. Chou Lou, Hu Han-Government buildings are sit- min and Hsiao Fu-chen, veteran uated had been suspended by It is bei The abolition of tithes, on Kuomintang leaders, who are order of the garrison comman-- action which may be decided upon General Manager), W. F. Sim- by the Committee of Eighteen. 31.mons (Secretary) and the fol-which the incomes of the ma-loud in denouncing Japanese der, General Kashii
Later: The rebels have been lowing shareholders: Messrs jority of the rural English aggression, are watching the lieved that operations to evict the will represent
. Although Mr. Ha- Flandin
C. Gordon Mackie, W. Allen, clergy depend, is foreshadowed situation in Tokyo with keen the rebels are about to begin. Government at Geneva-Reuter's
W. L. Choy, C. A. L. Rickett. by a Government statement of interest- Bulletin Service.
O el Arculli, Frank Austin, policy based on the recommen-chiro Arita, the new Japanese given till noon to surrender.
and co-operation S. T. Williamson, F. H. Crap dations of the Royal Commis- Ambassador, mentioned Sino-Beuter. sion on Tithes, appointed in Japanese
Shanghai: The conviction such a position been created by LEAGUE COUNCIL Dell F. W. Stapleton, A. H
Mackenzie, Chua Seng-choo, F. August, 1934, proposing the friendship in a written state extinction of the ment to the Press in Shanghai, MEETING
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whole existing tithe rent it is feared here that he will not that Tokyo events will have the Imperial Japanese family.
the gravest repercussions in a be permitted to carry out wing and B. W. Tape.
North China has been express- charge. CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH
ed to Reuter by the highest The report suggests that the policy of conciliation. Addressing the meeting, the
should purchase: Each of the Kuomintang lead-Chinese political circles, which Chairman said:-
RELATIONS tithe renters was visited by General Iwane express the belief that, what- "On April 1 last year your Com-compulsorily all Paris, To-day pany sustained the heaviest blow charges from the existing own-Matsui of the Supreme War ever. Government may be in- It is understood that at the in its history in the sudden an-ers, who will be compensated by Council in Tokyo, and they stalled, Japan will inevitably be urgent request of France one of the chief matters to be dis-ouncement that the Government the issue of a new Government agree
IMPORTANT POINT
TO BE RAISED
cussed at Geneva on March 2 will be the important problem of the application of the Treaty of Locarno in the event of the violation of Articles XLII and XLIII of the Covenant, which deal with the demilitarisation of the Bhireland. Beuter.
OBITUARY
Famous Russian
Scientist
Moscow, To-day.
*
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ANTI-FASCIST RIOTS
Government
that Sino-Japanese committed to a more forward 13 per cent stock amounting to friendship is out of the ques-continental policy than hither-
£70.000,000.
tion when Japan is bent on in-to. The same view is express- The tithe-payers' liabilities vading this country. The views ed in well-informed British cir will be extinguished by equal of these leaders have made a cles. annuities spread over 40 years.profound impression on the gen The annuities will be equal in eral public. amount to
the gross
annual
REBELS DEFIANT"
Later: A Japanese report from
buildings they hold Eeuter.
ANGLO-IRISH
London, To-day. Mr. Stanley Baldwin made an important statement yesterday to the House of Commons re garding the co-ordination of the defence services. He said it had been decided that while the Prime Minister would retain, as he clearly must, the chair- manship of the Committee of Defence Policy and Bequire Imperial Defence and of the ments Committee, a Minister would be appointed as Deputy Chairman of these Committees, The Dail, by 72 votes to 49, to whom the Prime Minister has ratified the recent Anglo would delegate the following Irish coal and cattle agreement duties:-
COAL AGREEMENT RATIFIED
Dublin, To-day.
Demonstrations In value of the tithe rent charge, The views of the Canton-mili-Tokyo states that the rebels have The motion moved by Mr. Cos- Firstly, general day-to-day -
Rumania
ias taken by the Commission. tary leaders were not made refused to evacuate the Government should not be ratified until im-Prime Minister's behalf, of the
inter- The Government statement public after they were
that Government viewed by General Matsui. It Bucharest, To-day declares the to theep Veement is believed that in large pro- An anti-Fascist riot occurred Joutside the Courts of Justice, in conclusions of the Commission, blems they generally follow the It is learned that the Govern-opinion of the three Kuomin which a number of Radicals are on trial for Communistic activi-meat intends to introduce the tang leaders. Ities. The police fired a few necessary legislation in thei shots, after which, the rioters Spring, so that the Bill will be
enacted by, the Autumn Reuter.
The death has occurred of the dispersed, there being no ca- Ivan sualties. Beuter's Bulletin
Service
Soviet psychologist
Pavlov, at the age of 86.
Although Pavlov was not a supporter of the Soviet rule, the Government, in apprecia-
POLICE OFFICER MISSING
NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF EURMA APPOINTED
tion of his scientific work, al- San Francisco, To-day Mr. London. Today, HM the loted him an annual pension of Stanley Keyes, an English po King has approved of the appoint- 200,000 roubles, and a gift of lice officer stationed in Shang-ment of Mr. E. G. E. Roberts as 1,000,000 roubles for the ex- hai, bound for London, was re- Chief Justice of Burma at Ran tension of his laboratory in ported missing from the liner goon, in place of Sir Arthur Page, Leningrad. Reuter's Bulletin Chichibu Maru when it docked retired. Beuter's Bulletin Ser-
tvice there. Reuter. Service.
EMPEROR ILL?
MEDICAL ADVISER
SUMMONED
Rome, To-day. The medical adviser to the Negus has been urgently sum- moned from Addis Ababa 20
according to Dessit, Dbouti report-Reuter
CALLS EXCHANGED Between Visiting Admirals
grave, that the agreement pervision and control, on the mediate steps had been taken to whole organisation and activity of negotiate a comprehensive set the Committee of Imperial. De British Governments, was deaction and of monthly progress tlement between the Irish and fence; co-ordination of exerative
feated by a similar vote.
reports to the Cabinet or an During the debate President committee appointed by them na de Valera stated that the Free the execution of the recondition State was still willing to submit ing plan:
Rear Admiral. Hosokawa paid the land annuities dispute to a Secondly, in the Prime Minis restriction.ter's absence, "taking the chair at an official call on Vice Admiral tribunal without Estera" on board the French and that was a big thing for a the Committes of Imperial Defence Cruiser Lamotte Picquet at small country to do Beuter.
On 2.05 pm this afternoon. leaving the cruiser he was ac-} corded a salute of 13 guns.
NOTTS COUNTY WIN-
and the Defence Policy and Be- quirements Contmittee;
Thinly, personal consultation with the Chiefs of Staffs together, *London, To-day Notts County, including the right to convene un Beturning the call at', 2.30 pm, Vice-Admiral Esteva was won at Newport yesterday by 2 der his chairmanship the Chief accorded e salute of 15 guns on goals to 1 in the Third Division of Staff Committee - whenever- leaving the Japanese cruiser (South) of the Football Leaguer they might think desirable:
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