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ATTEMPTS AT RECONCILIATION IN PALESTINE UNREST FAIL
STRIKES IN FRANCE AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
Petrol Shortage Now At An End
MEN TO RESUME WORK TO-DAY
~CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Paris, To-day.
An important conference with a view to finding a settlement to the strike was begun yesterday! afternoon in the Premier's official residence, and was attended by M. Leon Blum, the Minister of Inter- ior, M. Salengro, the Minister of Labour, M. Lebas, and deputations consisting of four persons from the Employers Association and four Eleanor Meade (above). Ameri- representatives of the workers,
The outcome of this confer- ence, which is still in progress. is eagerly awaited. and it is! hoped that it means a retura to normal conditions.
The end of the petrol short-
in view since aze is now
the workers in the petrol distribu- tion firms agreed to accept the proposals put forward by the Ministry of Labour and will re- sume work to-day. The pro- prietors of
the department stores agreed yesterday to guarantee a minimum scale of wages for the employees on the condition that they vacate the occupied premises.
Although the outlook thus seems somewhat better, the strike still continues and spreads
FRENCH SUNDAY PAPER CONFISCATED
Paris, to-day-The Sunday issue of the Solidarite Francais. the official organ of the Na- tionalist Association of that
name, was confiscated by order of the Ministry of Interior for publishing alarming and pro- Tocative
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Northern France, where there are at présent about 300,000 workers on strike.
Minister Cornelius Van H. En- gert reported last month that
can newspaper woman, was misa- ing in Addis Ababa, but.ît now transpires that she left the pillag ed city before the recent distur bances began. Miza Meade is a native of Springfield, Massachu
setia.
EMPLOYERS HESITANT
Accept Agreement With Reservations
LONG-CHERISHED IDEAL CONSECRATED
Paris, To-day.
NEW RHINE
BRIDGE
AGAIN A WATCH ON RHINE
NAMED AFTER ADOLF HITLER
SYMBOL OF FREEDOM REGAINED
-CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Krefeld. To-day.
The second new Rhine bridge. which was completed within last month, was opened yesterday by Herr Hitler's Deputy, Herr Rudolf Hess, and named "Adolf Hitler Rhine-bridge."
The new bridge afforded the! ¡much-needed connection be- tween the industrial region on the right bank of the Rhine with the highly developed agricultural district on the left! side, and also with the main roads: leading to Belgium and Holland.
Herr Hess, in his address, said that never had service for the įcommunity resulted in sc Mang achievements being carried out as in the few years of Herr Hitler's regime. Apostrophising the bridge,
Herr Hess then said: "Bear the name we
on
The voice of Father Paul Schulte rose above the drone of the Hindenburg's molors as mass was celebrated last month for the first time in the air. The assurance that the sacrificial wine would not be
spilled gained permission from His Holiness the Pope,
NANKING DIVISIONS FOR N. HUNAN?
ANOTHER JAPANESE REPORT
[From Our Own Correspondent)
Canton, To-day.
EMIR'S SERVICES AS PEACEMAKER
MEDIATION PLEA IS
INEFFECTIVE
REJECTED BY ARAB LEADERS
Jerusalem, To-day. The Emir of Trans-Jordan, acting as peacemaker, hunched at Amman with five members of the Arab High Committee. He sug gested the cessation of violence while a Royal Commission under- took an enquiry on the spot. The Arab leaders replied that it was impossible to consider ending the strike unless the British Government agreed fundamentally to change the present policy jand suspend Jewish immigration.
Seven Arab leaders, including Auni Abdul Hadi, secretary of the central strike committee, have been arrested and will be exiled in a concentration camp...
The Mayor of Jaffa has been warned that unless the Munici pality resumes work immediately the Councillors will be discharg ed and a new Council appointed. — Reuter.
Jerusaleim, later: Another battalion of British troops has! arrived from Egypt to reinforce
the garrison in Palestine, MECHANISATION
IN ITALY
"Chemical Warfare”
·
which now totals six battalions. in addition to tanks, engineers and the air force. Reuter.
NO ALTERNATIVE Jerusalem: The hopes which had been attached to the attempts by Emir Abdullah
Trans- Jordan to bring about a recon- ciliation in Palestine were shatter- ed when it was reported that the
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Rome, To-day.
Kwangsi troops have penetrated to Chi Yang in Southern Emir's, attempts had failed. The
Men in hideous masks and Hunan, while Kwangtung foutes are still lingering in Ch'en Chow, President and various members of thank for also in Southern Huuan, according to a report received here last the Arah strike committee, who shroud-like robes, standing mo- the fact there is again a watch night by the usually well-informed Domei (Japanese) News had left Jerusalem on Friday for tionless in lorries, were a grim
the name this river; bear
the capital Agency.
Trans section of the up-to-date mechan- which for us-symbolises the Ger The same report stated that there are few provincial trope Jordan, have now "returned, and sed amy corps which marched man nation's will to assert itself; in Southern Bunan; as most of them have been transferred to announced that they are no siter through the streets and was re- bear the name which means re-
Yunnan and Kwelchew to fight the Reds. According to the same native but categorically to decline It is understood that the em-gained freedom, peace at home
Emir's proposals. source, there are 12 Nanking divisions and four regiments sta-the ployers only gave way owing to land abroad, and honour, the name tioned around the Tung Ting Lake area in Northern Hunan Ocean Service. the decisive intervention of the which has become one of the most There may be a clash if the southern soldiers move farther north- new Government. They finally significant and foremost in a thou- waru.
christen jagreed to accept the terms with sand years' history. I
*Adolf Hitler Bridge.'"- reservations regarding the econo-you mic consequences which may be Trans-Ocean Service. entailed.
The agreement does not apply FARMERS HURT
to the big department stores, which are not directly affiliated with the employers' confederation, but a conference of employers and workers of the stores is being held this afternoon under the aegis of the Minister of Interior in order to settle the differences.
M. Blum, interviewed by Reuter,
This number is even said that the agreement had con- likely to be increased to-day, since secrated a long-cherished ideal a general strike in all collerics and put France on the road to a Northern France has been called new economic regime. for to-day.
BY FLOODS
RELIEF MEASURES CONTEMPLATED
LAND TAX REMITIED
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton, To-day- Because the entire Tai Ping district in Cheng Shing County
The Government tables in the has been devastated by floods, the The newspapers, reappeared in Chamber to-morrow the necessary Kwangtung Provincial Govern- Paris yesterday, but the printers bills implementing the agreement. and other employees in the news--Reuter.
paper publishing firms in Lille!
and Roubah have gone on strike,
so that now these
without
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papers. Trans-Ocean
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Builders Decide
To Strike
FURTHER COMPLICATION
IN PARIS
KING GEORGE MEMORIAL
DONATIONS FROM ROYAL FAMILY
London, To-day.
ment has approved the petition of the farmers there not to collect the land tax for the present: On the contrary, relief will be sent to that district, which is close to the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
"The floods on May 21 reached ļa height of 30 feet and submerged all the rice fields," stated the petition. The crops
al were detroyed, and our livestock were drowned. The foods on the East
exten-
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U.S.R.C. MIXED DOUBLES
TEAM HARD HIT
Mrs: Kayll Strains Back And Mrs. Dowling In Hospital
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The chances of the U.S.R.C. Mixed Doubles team of securing over the holders, the C.R.C to-day have been cashed to the ground, as Mrs. Kayll has strained her back and is unable to play, while Mrs. W. E. B. Dowling is ill in hospital.
As a result Mrs. Wilson will partner L. Goldman, while Mrs. Holmes will pair up with A. L Sullivan, and Mrs. Ashton will partner Major R. L. Withington
SOUTH-WEST MOVEMENT
Watchful Waiting By Japan
NO DESPATCH OF WARSHIPS
"AT PRESENT”” --
Although Nanking, dispatches jstated that Japanese warships will be sent to Canton to protect Japanese nationals, the Japanese Consulate-General bere has not re- įceived any such report. Japanese
in Canton are not molested in any:
WEY.
Trans viewed by the King." They were
ENTRENCHED SNIPERS
Jewish Buses Being Ambushed
Jerusalem, To-day.
kish trenches 09 the
a detachment of the chemical war- fare section, with their hands en- cased in gas-proof gloves. By their sides ranged the tubes, cylin ders and other paraphernalia of their trade.
Some 25,000 troops presented in miniature the extensive mechan-
OBITUARY
Arab anipers have taken up isation of the whole army. - Meanwhile Generals Chen Chi-
Chung-jen and Pai Positions in some war-time Tor- Reuter. ¡tang, Li
hiltops Hsung-hsi issued another circular three miles outside the city, from telegram last night calling which they are ambushing Jewish other military chiefs in North
buses. Armed police and a platoon China to join their cause.. The
of Highlanders response is unknown.
to the scene and fierce fighting, easted. The darkness was illum-} inated by searchlights and rockets.į
One Cameron Highlander was wounded.
were
rushed up
The snipers casualties are atj
NANKING TROOPS ON MOVE Nanking's refusal to fight Ja- ipan now does not surprise the mi- litary men here. General Chiang Kai-shek, the head of the Nanking] Government, wants more time for present unknown, but it is believ
that, several were fatally preparation and considers that). woundedReuter any anti-Japanese move by pro-l vincial chieftains is really direct- ed against him.
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LAMMA ISLAND
MURDER
FORMER PARTNER OF JARDINE'S
MR. J. J. BELL IRVING
Londen, To-day. The death has occurred of Mr. J. J. Bell Irving, an ex-partner of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and ¡Co., Ltd., of Hong Kong-Renter Mr. James Jardine Bel Irving, of Makestoun, born on December 24, 1857. He was the son of John Bell-Irving of White Hill, and brother of John Bell-Irving.
Central troops in Fukien and Kiangs are reported to be mor ing closer to the Kwangtang bor des, while in Kweichow the Nan- king divisions are marching close to the Kwangsi frontier. For some time the Kwangsi · and Shanghai, To-day. Kwangtung troops have consider-} "Our attitude is one of watched that the heavy massing of Nan-Chung Ki, aged $7, who had return home in April 1502.
was menacing.
G.0.C. RETURNS FROM NORTH
Tour of Inspection Completed
Fisherman Beaten To Death With Sticks WOMAN'S REPORT TO POLICE
The body of a fisherman named
· 1923.
He came to Ching' 1881, and be- (came a partner of Jardine, Mathe Ison and Co. in 1887; and was sent for partner in the East before his
The appeal staff at the Man-River washed away the dykes. sion House is busily engaged in Although the waters have reced- Paris, To-day. receiving donations to the Lordjed, the damage done was With M. Leon Blum as media-Mayor's King George Memorial | zíve."
{ful waiting," said a Japanese Em-king troops close to their borders|parently been beaten to death with He was a member of the Exec- tor, a conference between em-Fund, to which, it is
sticks, was found yesterday after-tive and announced,
Legislative Councils in The flood situation in the three bassy spokesman, denying the re-
noon on Lamma Island. ployers and workers', organisa-H. M. the King and Queen Mary rivers of Kwangtung has eased
Hong Kong, Chairman of the Hong Leung Kan, aged 34, a married Kong and Shanghai Bank and tions reached a partial settle have donated $1,000 each, the off owing to the absence of heavy port that Japan bad protested to ment on wages, the recognition Duke and Duchess of York £500 rain.
(woman, residing at an unzumber-
many other companies. It was fortunate that the Nanking as regards the events in of the trade unions and the re- and
led but at Lazama Island, reporta
After his return Se lived at the Duke and Duchess of excessive rain in Canton last week Cantor. He added that Japan did
that in company with deceased Minto House, Hawkk, and Rokeby, cognition of workshop, commit-Gloucester and of Kent £250 each did not extend to the interior, and not at present contemplate the
she went about i pan to pick Barnard Castle-but afterwards tees. The question of the "em- Numerous cheques of $1,000 are the abundant rain water quickly despatch of warships to Canton ployers. condition
awabies, the being received
from prominent found its way into the seas vir
bought the Makerston property strikers should return to their firms and companies, together the Canton River.
Observers are of the opinion)
There was a party of 10 or 13 on the Tweed, near Kelso. work is still outstanding The with lesser amounts, while the in-
that the Japanese are not likely to
persons drying fish on the rocks. He married in 1890, Eva Ger- workers tide are conferring on terest of children in the Fund is
act precipitately, since the South- His Excellency Major General Deceased climbed up a rock and trude Piercy; daughter of Ben- the matter.
WEATHER REPORT
General there was an argument with the jamin Piercy of Kirchweil Hall, levidenced by the receipt of many Without awaiting the conclu-mail sums in postal orders and
west movement may react in their AW. Bartholomew,
Ofeer Commanding the troops in others, who accused him Weak anti-cyclonic areas are si-favour in the long run-Reater. China, returned to Hong Kong by damaging the fish
of Wrexham, and Mascemer, Ser sions of the negotiations the
A fight is dinia. Her sister married Sir ||stamps.—Reuter, Paris builders have decided to
Ituated over N. China and Japan-j strike to-morrow-Beuter.
that
An irregular depression lies over Texi Kwan Yuk, nee Kwan the steamship Yochow yesterday believed to have taken place, dur-Robert W. Buchanan Jardine, Paris Later: A midnight cori-
South China, Formors and the Yeak (or Yak) Ho, married wo-from his tour of inspection in ling which the deceased was hit
Lee Darling, "as engineer: on ference between representatives which lasted all day under the Loochoos, with centres over southman, who died at No. 24, Yik Yam Shanghai, Tientsin and Peiping. with poles and fell from a height
Lt. P. J. Howarth, A.D.G., re- of 25 feet to a ledge and killed the President Mckinley, was ad- of the employers ---and, mörkers presidency of M. Blum An west China and to the south of Street on March 12 last, left local
assailants escaped im-mitted to the Kowloon Hospital. reached an agrees
agreement signed by the represen-Nahe South-west winds, moder-estate sworn under $16,500. The mained behind for a short heli-]. His {tatives concerned provides 7 toate; fair to showery, was the fore-petition by Tani (or Chin) Shin-day, and Lt. Kengthorne, R.W.F,mediately after the incident. yesterday suffering from injuries The Police are making enquiries received during a fight or boend 15 per cent increase in wages, a cast for to-day, as issued by the ki, for grant of the probate of is acting as ADC. during his
and are hopeful of early arrests. the ship at Kowloon- Wharf. (Continued on Page 91 Royal Observatory this moming, the will, has been granted.
strike.—Heater.
- Laters. The straig "wast the outcome of
rence
fabsence.