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BRITISH CABINET KEEPING CLOSE WATCH ON FRENCH POLITICS
HEROIN SUPPLIES
FROM JAPAN
GENEVA DEMANDS MORE
RIGID CONTROL
SENTENCES ON TRAFFICKERS DECLARED INADEQUATE
Geneva, To-day.
Acetic anhydride sufficient to manufacture the world's legitimate requirements of heroin from 30 to 60 times was imported into China in 1935, said Mr. Fuller, the United States representative on the Opium Committee yesterday. The legiti- mate imports of this chemical in 1935 totalled shooting and bombing incidents 31,900 kilos, of which 26,700 came from Japan. This total did not include the amounts entering China clandestinely.
A curfew order on the railway throughout Palestine has been declared by Sir Arthur Wau- chope, above. High Commissioner of Palestine, following further
in several towns.
COLBERT TRIAL
PROFESSIONAL VISITS
• H
Accused Denies Paying Social Calls
IMPOSSIBLE FOR DOCTOR TO REMOVE CAPSULE WITHOUT BEING OBSERVED
Tientsin. To-day.
In the continued hearing of the Colbert trial the accused ad- mitted frequent visits to Mrs. Thomas in her hotel bedroom. but always professionally and never socially alone, and some times Mrs. Thomas called at his office. which was on the route! to the school
Mrs. Cappelen, the mother of Mrs. Colbert, Mr. H. E. Woodall and Mrs. Donnelly, friends of the Colberts, testified to the condition, appearance and treat-! ment of Mrs. Colbert, corrobor- ating the accused in these mat- ters.
witnesses asserted i
All the that it was impossible for Dr. Grice to remove the capsule without being observed.-Reu- ter
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that
Mr. Fuller added that there had been manufacture of the
chemical in Shanghai in 1935 by a plant with a potential output of 250.000 kilos a year, and legitimate commercial demand in China for acetic anhydride was almost non-existent.
SWEDISH RED CROSS UNIT REPORTED MISSING
Anxiety Felt in Stockholm
Stockholm, To-day. Anxiety is felt for the Swedish Red Cross unit in Abyssinia. which is travelling from the southera frent to Addis Ababa. Ar aeroplane was sent 10 days ago from Addis Ababa to lock for them and to recall them home, but no word has been re- ceived as to their whereabouts. --Reuter's Bulletin Service.
COMPANY MEETING
CANTON
INSURANCE
OFFICE LTD. Acute Competition During Depression
FORMER POLICY BEARS FRUIT
IN TIME OF STRESS
Momentous Decisions Pending
DUCE PREPARED TO MAKE CONCESSIONS
WHITE TROOPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM LIBYA AIMS IN PALESTINE AND EGYPT OFFICIALLY SCOUTED
London, To-day.
It is understood that the British Government has decided to await the advent of the Socialist French Government under M. Leon Blum before taking the big decisions on foreign policy which must be faced in the near future. The last Çab- inet meeting, after hearing Mr. Anthony Eden's report, merely decided to maintain the existing sanctions and fleet concentrations.
Meanwhile the suggested pacts of mutual assistance be The annual general meeting tween the Mediterranean countries and Britain find favour in The report of the Seizures Sub-committee, published yester-of the Canton Insurance Office, French circles, provided Italy is included, though France, like
Signor Grandi, abose, Italian Ambassador in Paris, has been Liven definite instructions by Signor Mussolini in the matter of an approach to Britain, whereby, in return for recognition of the Italian victory in Ethiopia, Bri- tish interests in the Lake Tsana region will be fully protected.
Canada furnished conclusive evidence of an organised traffic in the Board Room of of Messrs sinia has been openly annexed. day, says that the representatives of the United States and Ltd., was held this morning at Britain, or applying to approach Italy now that Abys-LEAKAGE IN |those countries from Japan. The sub-committee again noted the Jardine. Matheson and Co.
Signs of increased Italian interest in Albania are reported to fact that the Japanese authorities were unable to discover how Ltd. when a final dividend of be disturbing Yugoslavia and Greece. the drugs legitimately manufactured in Japan got into the illicit $8.40 Der traffic.
It is understood that Signor Mussolini expressed willingness share, absorbing $420,000 in the 1934 account, Lake Tsana and the French rights in the Djibouti-Addis to France to negotiate on a basis respecting the British rights. The committee was again and an Interim Dividend
Ababa railway, and, it is understood, not to raise a black army,
EARTHQUAKE AT PINGSHAN
of
struck by the inadequacy of the $3.60 per share, absorbing Reuter.
tences.
CONDITIONS Suit Against Woman Lawyer
sentences passed by the Japan- $180,000 on the 1935 account, ese traffickers and repeated its were declared by the Chairman, Paris: The Italian Ambassa- earlier appeal to the Japanese the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, dor in London, Signor Grandi, DEVIL'S ISLAND Government to provide legisla-(who presided.
has received special instructions tion for really deterrent sen-! Among those present were from Signor Mussolini regärd- The committee added Mr. E. D. Clarke, Mr. L. Dun-ing the explanations to be given Hundreds Killed And that the supplies of heroin en-bar, Mr. J. H. Taggart, and Mr. to Britain,
tering China appear to come S. T. Williamson (Directors) TInformation," which believes according to Injured
chiefly from Daireni. Reuter. and Mr. F. C. Hall (Secretary).that the Duce is of the opinion The following shareholders were that time and calm discussion CHINESE WEDDING also present: Hon. Mr. M. K. should produce an improvement
Lo. Messrs. Ho Kom-tong, W. Hin the Italo-British relations. AT REGISTRY Choy, M. H. Lo, Ho Shai-
cheung, H. J. Armstrong, J. E.j Signer Well-Known Families United
Shanghai, To-day, Private advices from Chengta report that hun dreds were killed and in- jured in the Pingshan, Szechuan, earthquake May 16. Half the city was Laid in ruins and neigh- bouring towns were also rocked and damaged.- Reuter.
on
GUFFEY COAL BILL
Mussolini is
therefore assurance
R. Hance, J. D. Danby, W. L Prepared to give зл Mackenzie and J. Fleming.
that he is not seeking to extend the Roman Empire in North Africa
and as
tangible proof, would consider the removal of the
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AND FRACTURES HIP
Two well-known local Chin-PRESIDENT'S MOTHER FALLS white troops from Libya ¡ese families were united this afternoon by the marriage, at The Registry, Supreme Court, of Miss Stelia Fung, daughter, lof Mr. and Mrs. Fung Kong-un. land Mr. Chau Sing-ki, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chau Man-chi.
Mr. Fung Kong-un is well- known in local business circles,
Washington. To-day. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, President Roosevelt's mother, fell and fractured her hip yesterday while visiting her great-grand- children in New York-Retter.
New Legislation Being being the head of Messrs. Fung KWANGSI ARMY'S
Drafted
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'BRAINS"
GENERAL PAI IN CANTON
RELATIONS WITH NANKING BEING CONSIDERED ·
The
newspaper adda that Signor Mussolini would officially declare that he has no aims in Palestine and Egypt and is ready,| in return for recognition of Italy's victory, to resume good relations between Italy and Britain.- Reu-
ter.
TALY'S FINANCES
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Paris, To-day. A young French woman lawyer who chose the French penal settlement at Cayenne in French Guayana for the double purpose of a honey- moon and an object for field- stodies, has now to face the results.
It appears that the prison wardens were aggrieved at her outspoken articles on the conditions in Cayenne and "Devil's Island,” and have fil- ed a lawsuit against her.
The proceedings began on Tuesday, and are attended by a deputation of the wardens. -Trans-Ocean Service.
SECRETS “MALICIOUS GOSSIP"
Colonial Secretary Victimised
M
BUDGET INFORMATION
NOT DIVULGED
London. To-day. Mr. J. W. Morris, B.C., for Mr. J. H. Thomas, Colonial Secretary, addressing the badget tribunal yesterday, stated that he was not defending Mr. Thomas against any charges, but was trying to dis- cover if any leakage had occurred, as Mr. Thomas's name
was in- Ivolved. Mr. Morris said that Mr. Thomas had voluntarily and free- ly given evidence and had on oath declared that he had never at any time divulged any budget secrets. Counsel concluded by asking the Court to declare Mr. Thomas's name clear of
any implications in the affair. "It is a cruel thing," he said, "that Mr. Thomas's name was mentioned, as a result of idle gossip."-Reuter's Bulletin Service.
London: At the closing session of the budget tribunal, Mr. Fre- derick Van Den Berg., E.C., said that Lloyd's had paid all the The amount involved
An earlier message, said Dr. John William Colbert, a pro-j
Tang and Company of Pedder Building, while the father of
Rome: The Council of Deputies minent American physician resid-
the bridegroom is the well-
¦has approved the estimates for the ing in Tientsin, who is charged.
Washington, To-day.
year, known Chinese philantrophist
Finance with the attempted poisoning of
presented by the
HUNGARIAN MINISTER Following President Roose- who presented the Headquarters į
Minister, Signor Paolo Thaon de
TO VISIT BERLIN his wife, when cross-examined velt's insistence that the New to the St. John Ambulance Bri-
Reval. The Minister stated that yesterday admitted that he had Deal must keep on trying to gade at Tai Hang Hill.
although sanctions had reduced been married four times, the first reach. the objectives of the in-
Budapest, Today. The Hun- claims. The Han. Sir Shou-son Chow!
tions by the country had reduced tion, Dr. Valentine Homan, will gard to the underwriters. Lloyd's exports considerable counter-sanc-garian Minister of Public Instruc- was quite negligible, having re (Continued on Page 12) validated Guffey Coal Bill Mr. witnessed the ceremony, after Joseph F. Guffey (Dem.. Pitts-which a reception was held on
imports to a greater extent, thus shortly proceed to Berlin in order was actuated solely by a sense of burgh). has drafted a new bill the Roof Garden of the Hong
giving the country a better trade to return the visit paid recently to public duty in reporting the affair. to allow price-fixing. It will Kong Hotel, when the many
the Hungarian capital by the be presented to Congress as friends of both families gather-
The tribunal hope to present The deficit for 1935-36 is estim-German Minister for Education, their report to Parliament at the Reuter. early as possible. --~-
ed to offer their felicitations to ance is attached to the animated at £28,000,000, which is bet-Dr. Rust Trans-Ocean Service. beginning of next week.-Beuter. Later: A substitute Guffey Coal party, in honour of the occa-Commander-in-Chief
the happy couple. A dinner here of General Li Chung-jen, ter than in M. Leon Blum's Cabinet will Industry Bill, with the sections to sion, will be held in the Kam Fourth Group Army. He came not be announced before to-morrow, which the Supreme Court object-Ling according to the latest informa-ed deleted, has been introduced night. tion forthcoming. Trans-Ocean into the Senate and the House of Service.
MR. HERRIOT'S POLITICAL FUTURE
Paris, To-day-The final deci- sion as to M. Herriot's inclusion
Representatives.--Reuter.
SMUGGLING IN NORTH
BRITISH GOVERNMENTS CONCERN
London, To-day.
Restaurant
From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton. To-day. Considerable political import-
of
the
balance.
the previous year's The Minister did not estimate. give any estimate for war expen- to-morrow back here by plane from Nan-diture for next year.-Beuter.
ning yesterday afternoon, al-
CURFEW ORDER IN PALESTINE
Further Outrages Reported
Jerusalem, To-day.
though he was granted two ITALY'S ENTRY months' leave 10 days ago to
return to Kwangsi, General Pai Hsung-asi, the "brains" of:
the Kwangsi armies, is also
there.
arc
The two Kwangsi leaders much sought after by local offi cials with respect to future rela- tions with Nanking. Both men Fare against dictatorship and
INTO WAR
Arab Detachments In Commemoration
*CHINA MAIL" SPÉCIAL
Rome, To-day,
CORONATION IN ROME
PERPLEXING DILEMMA FOR POPE
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Paris, To-day,
The assertion of the paper Quevre, that the coronation of the
King of Italy as Emperor of Ethiopia will not be performed by
the Pope but by some Cardinal, is attracting much attention here. According to the paper, the Pope fears that he would expose bim- self too much to criticism throughout the world by performing the coronation himself.
At question-time in the House of Commons yesterday 'Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, said that the situation with
It may be assumed, says the paper, that Signor Mussolini regard to smuggling in North China was receiving the close at- Shots were fired at Acre, Da-Japanese aggression. Their pre-ed from the four Lybian Legions, fact that Signor Mussolini has recently declared that he is will- A thousand young Arabs, draft-will do his utmost to induce the Pope to change his mind, and the tention of the British Government and the difficulties experi- jan Jenin and other towns yester-sence here officially is to pay hom-will march in a big parade here ing to concede to the Church a certain measure of control over enced by the Chinese authorities in combating smuggling had re-day, according to a Government age to the late Mr. Ht Han-mia. cently been brought to the notice of the Japanese Government by.
on Sunday in commemoration of the schools in Ethiopia may be interpreted as an attempt to gain the British Ambassador at Tokyo, Sir Robert Clive.
communique. The Jaffa police-General Chiang Kai-shek, Presi-war.
Vernacular papers report that the day on which Italy entered the his object. The reply of the Japanese Government to these representa-station was bombed and its windeat of the Executive Yuan, will some days ago and were inspected vans from the provinces of Jimma, Kaffa and Gambela, there
The Arabe left Tripolis Addis Ababa: According to reports brought here by cara tions was to the effect that the present smuggling campaign must dows were smashed Curfew refly to Canton to pay his respects by the Governor-General of Lybia, seems to be the utmost quiet everywhere. Reliable reports re- be attributed partly to the high tariff rates imposed, by the Chin gulations have been imposed but no notice of his impending Arab Sheiks will also take part in dred warriors in the mountains of Gojjam-Trans-Ocean Service. ese Government and partly to lack of interest on the part of the along the railways throughout visit has been received in official the procession. Trans-Ocean Ser-i
to the dead Kuomintang leader, Marshal Ealbo. A number of ceived here state that Ras Imru is still hiding with 'several hun- local Chinese authorities in safeguarding the revenues accruing
Palestine. Reuter.
Addis Ababa The British Red Cross have left. They were
to the Central Government. — Eeuter.
Iquarters here.
vice.
seen off at the station by the whole British Colony, Reuter..