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MAZE UPHOLDS ACTION BY CHINESE CUSTOMS
BOTH SIDES TAKING PRECAUTIONS
AERIAL DEFENCES
INSPECTED
NANKING AND SOUTH-WEST EXPECT BOMBING PLANES
1 From Our Own Correspondentl
Canton, To-day. Anticipating an aerial attack by Canton bombers, Lieut.- General Miao Pan-cho, crack Nanking flier, arrived at Hengchow on Saturday from Changsha. He inspected the aerial defence of Hengchow and submitted a report to General Chiang Kai-shek. President of the Executive Committee
This report came from Changsha and intends to give the im- pression that Canton wants to start a civil war.
General Ho Chien, Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Gov- ernment, also arrived at Hengchow on Saturday from Changsha and inspected the defences there.
In Changsha, searchlights were directed towards the sky on Friday night on the look out for hostile bombing planes. Nan-
king fighters took off at night on the watch for Southern
bombers.
CONDITIONS IN TWO “KWANGS". More Dangerous Than That In N. China
ASOUTH-WEST TO FOLLOW FATE
OF MANCHURIA?
[From Our Own Correspondent?
Canton, To-day
!
All these reports indicate
that the South-west would start
the offensive. On the other
Members of the All-China Olympic Games delegation photographed at Caroline Hill yesterday. (“China Mail" photo).
ROOSEVELT READY FOR STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN
THRUSTS AT ECONOMIC ROYALISTS
Philadelphia, To-day. With the applause of his supporters through- hand, the military here disclaim out the country ringing in his ears President any intention to fight the Nar Roosevelt is now ready for the Presidential cam- king forces in Funan.
paign, in which "Democracy of Opportunity” is have two additional armies to to be his war-cry. The fear that the campaign be placed under the command might become one of bitter personal abuse is dis- of Generals Huang Jen-huan pelled by the absence of personal references from and Miao Pen-nan respectively. Mr. Roosevelt's speech, accepting re-nomination.
The Kwangtung forces will
Actually there will be an increase of two divisions of about 30,000 officers and men.
Enters Nursing Home For Minor Operation
Conditions in Kwangtong and These new units will garrison DUCHESS OF KENT INDISPOSED Kwangsi are more dangerous than Eastern Kwangtung, upon which the situation in North China. We an attack by Nanking forces in¦ fear that before the Southern Fukien is likely, when an open troops reach
North China, the rupture occurs. South-west will follow the fate of Manchuria
This is the gist of a telegram addressed to the South-west mili-
ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY
An attempted armed robbery took place at Wanchai at 8 am.
tary authorities by General Hoto-day, when two men armed with Ying-ching. Minister of War revolvers and a knife visited the
Staff of the Nanking armies, and Road. The robbers were disturb General Ching Chien, Chief of second floor of No. 206 Lockhart Generals Tang Sheng-chi and led by the inmates and ran away, Chen Tiao-yuan, members of the discarding their arms, which were Military Affairs Commission: The later found by the Police. Nothing telegram was made public last was stolen. night by the Shun Shih News Agency, a Nanking publicity ser-1- vice in Shanghai.
The telegram charged that Kwangtung troops have penetrated into Eastern Fukien and Kwangsi troops have crossed the borders into Kweichow. It also stated that the Kwangtung troops in Southern Kiangxi have been increased.
The four Nanking Generals urged the South-west military to tise their troops in their own provinces for national defence and to support the Central Authori- ties.
*The message was sent here On June '26.
VALLEY GOLF RESULTS
The following are Fourth Round results in the Happy Valley Sum- mer Singles competition:
Since then the military here de-. clare that their troops have with- drawn and they welcome public inspection of the position of the Kwangtung units.
BETTER THAN LEAGUE
T. D. Paton beat H. H. Mundy
5 and 4.
J. E. Richardson beat L Newton
at the 19th.
A. L Powell beat A. T. Braley
at the 19th.
A. J. Denzis beat T.. R. Chassels
one up.
London, To-day. HRH. the Duchess of ent
3 Kensington entered
nursing nore last evening for a minor operation-Reuter.
OUT
Greatest Insurance For Peace
the
GOVERNMENT'S SANCTIONS POLICY DENOUNCED
Labour Demonstration In Hyde Park
London, To-day.
PERFECTLY NORMAL
PROCEDURE
JAPANESE VESSELS
WARNED
ALLEGED VIOLENCE AT TANGKU
Shanghai, To-day.
The recent seizure of two Japanese vessels by the Chinese Customs cutters off Tsingtao and Chikon, which led to Japanese agitation and in- cidents such as Japanese rioters attacking the Customs building at Tsingtao, are the subject of la report by Sir Frederick Maze to the Chinese
Government.
It states that the Customs cutters followed a perfectly” nor- mai proċedure when they seized the Japanese vessels, which had been given due warning and were seized within territorial waters. The crew of one of them was alleged to have admitted having smuggled sugar, and the other is said to have been warned from the shore of the approach of the Customs cutters.
SMUGGLING IS PROFITABLE
It is also alleged that the Japanese Consular police at Tangku violently assaulted Chinese Customs officials. — Reuter.
A message on Saturday stated | that a mob of 700 Japanese at- A resolution protesting tempted to seize the Customs against the decision of the buildings and fought for half an Government to abandon sunc- hour with the Japanese Consular tions against Italy was cat. police at Tsingtao оп Friday ried by a big Labour demon-
The police finally dispersed them, stration in Hyde Park yester-Jafter which the remnants made [towards" the home of Mr. Camp- (bell, Customs Commissioner, which
they tried to rush.
day afternoon, after speeches
by the Labour leaders, includ- ing Major C. R. Attlee, Labour leader in the House of Com mons, and Mr. Herbert Mor- rison, chairman of the London County Council Beater.
Waving daga and shouting “Down with Campbell" the mob marched towards the Commission- er's house; but were repulsed by
Huge Fortunes Made In Swatow
CATERING TO VICES OF THE PUBLIC
[From Our Own Correspondent) Canton, To-day. Smugglers in the Swafow a strong curden of Japanese police, districts have made a net profit who hastily surrounded the buildof over $1,000,000 during the MAN SHOT BYing Others mauged to reach the past 12 months ending in May,
Mr. Roosevelt's thrusts at economic royalist are great- lly to the taste of the average man. Republicans, while prais- ing the speech,-centre. [comment on the emergence of a new demand for Mr. Lehman Raw Opium Strapped
Round Legs
{Customs building, but found that
DETECTIVE their
to accept a third term of office Governor of New York
the officials had fled and the place and this illicit tratac will be ex- tended to East River counties, was locked up. ---
according to a Swatow report": A member of the Nanking reaching here. Japanese Embassy staff verbally
Japanese ronins are the back- to the Foreign Office protested
ers of this smuggling enter- against the Chikao and Tsingtao prise. So profitable is the busi- Tsang Ah-ki, aged 25, ajincidents. He drew attention to: stone-breaker, was admitted to the alleged insults to the Japanese two opium shops and four res ness that a big gambling den, The "Herald-Tribune" insists the Kowloon Hospital on Satur- flag and pointed out that these
taurants were opened recently that this demolishes Mr. J. A day suffering from 2 shot were intolerable.
in Swatow under the auspices of this smuggling concern.
25
State.
SOLDIER SPEAKS Farley's claim that the election wound through the scrotum
is in the bag." It means While 2 Chinese Detective, that President Roosevelt's P.C.C. 469, was engaged on a case name has lost its magic in his in Lok Mau Chau on Saturday at own State, and another man 1.15 pm he saw the man coming must be drafted in to win what towards him and acting in a very President Bosevelt cannot win. Įsuspicious"manner. The detective
COMMUNIST CANDIDATE
stopped him, proceeded to search London, To-day.
him, and found something tied *Full ranks all over
New York, Later: The Com-round his legs. The man then Empire are the greatest insurmunist Party has nominated Earl assaulted the detective and in the ance for the peace of the W. Browder as candidate for the struggle which ensued he got. world and better than all the
Presidency-Reuter. League, speeches, protocols, regional agreements and al the rest of the nonsense we have heard so much about re- cently," declared Field Mar shal Sir Philip Chetwode in his address at a review of the United Services Corps in Lon- don yesterday ---Reuter.
SEVEN KILLED ON
WEST RIVER
BOILER EXPLODES ON STEAM LAUNCH
1 From Our Own Correspondent]
SITUATION IN PALESTINE
BELIEVED MORE SERIOUS
ARAB LOSSES AFTER NABLUS ACTION UNKNOWN
"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Jeruzalem, To-day-
away.
The policeman ordered him to: stop but he did not do so, where- three upon the, detective fired shots, one of which took effect.
When searched again, 12 taels of raw opium were found strapped round his legs.
The condition of the man- is not, serious.
AN ECCENTRIC CONGRESSMAN
Escapes From Mental
Home
Towson, Maryland, To-day.
Mr. Marion A. Zioncheek, the eccentric member of Com- gress who ran amok on his honeymoon, has escaped from ́the mental hospital where he had been confirmed. It is be-
·lieved that he scaled the wall while walking in the grounds.
He is reported to have been seen driving a motor-car in the direction of Elliot City.— Reuter.
450 HOTELS CLOSE DOWN
ON FRENCH RIVIERA
That the fighting in Palestine is PROTEST BY PROPRIETORS AGAINST
OCCUPATION BY EMPLOYEES
**CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL -
Paris, To-day.
Germany's Basis For the steam ac Wise Cheung on the afternoon of June 25 at the res? losses must be still down. This was the protest of the Hotel Proprietors Union
European Peace
Berlin, To-day.
Today
Wan Fou on the West River, some distance from Canton. were injured by the explosion.
Japanese merchants openly
import rice and other agricul tural products without paying
any special tax. They declare that such tax is not provided for by the Sino-Japanese treaty, and therefore the question of Įsmuggling does not arise, in the jopinion of the Japanese resi-
dents.
The point is supported by Mr. Chuichiro Harada, Japanese Consul in Swatow, and the Fifth Japanese Torpedo Boat Flotilla.
As the South-west authorities are proclaiming an anti-Japan- ese policy, Chinese merchants bere expect that the activities of the Japanese ronins will be curbed
THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS
President At Next Assembly
“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL: 288uming 2 more serious charac-
Geneva, To-day. ter is indicated by the latest re-
When the League of Nations ports, which assert that the Arab
Assembly meets to-morrow the losses during the military action
first question to be settled is that Canton, To-day. in the Nablus region are estimated
At midday yesterday, 450 hotels on the French Riviera closed of who shall preside. The ori ginal intention to elect Dr. Benes Seven persons were killed by the explosion of a boiler aboard at 56 dead and 98 wounded, but
has become infracticable owing Six greater, as many of those who fell against the illegal occupation of several hotels by the employees,
to the fact that he has in the in the mountains are unburied and jand because of the negotiations with the Government about the bence uncounted.
institution of the new decrees passed by the Blum Cabinet, im- meanwhile became Czechoslova- Hên President The most likely The injured persons arrived minutes. She was towing two
candidates now are the Rumanian In Samaria 6,800 grape viner posing heavier welfare obligations. The League of Nations is a here on Saturday for medical boats laden with salt, but the
destroyed cut were
Saturday, good thing, but air squadrons and treatment They include the connecting ropes
The closing of all hotels in jopen to receive foreign travell-Foreign Minister, M. Titulescu.
Senor Barcial army corps are better, declared captain, an engineer, a stoker, adrift before the steam launch whereupon the British authorities
strike. fined the Arab village of Sabkarin Cannes, Nice and Mentone ers who do not know of the and the Spanish Foreign Minister, Dr. Goebbels, Minister for Pro- and a purser.
went to the bottom.
causes serious inconvenience, In Nice alone 1,200 guests had Other likely candidates are the paganda at Stuttgart at a meet Five persons aboard the steam Over pressure of steam and 5250-Trans-Ocean-Service.
not only to the guests but also to pack yesterday, the proprie. Portuguese delegate Senhor Mon- ing of 10,000 leaders of the Nazi launch, were immediately killed the worn not conditions of the Party. He added that German by the boiler explosion. Frag boilers are alleged to be the MORE TROOPS FROM EGYPT to all the industries that live tors profusely apologising but teire, and the Belgian Premier, M
of the explosion. This
from supplying the hotels or stating that while the strike van Zeeland. The last-named aimed to give Europe a new basisments of the boiler also killed causes
is the third boiler explosion on Cairo, To-day. The Eighth from the purchases of the lasts, it is not possible to girar might even have the greatest for a better pence, though he was two farmers on the bank. - certain it would take years to st The launch was broken up by the West River in the past two Hussars have arrived in Jerusalem guests. For the time being one antee even one ment Trans- chance if he reaches the Assembly
from Egypt Reute tain this sim Reuter.
Tthe explosion and sank m 20 years.
were
to
Thotel of each class will remain Ocean Service.
in time-Trans-Ocean Eervice.