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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
GERMANY SEEKING
GYMKHANA STAKES
RUNNING
The following notice was posted
at the Hong Kong Jockey Club this morning:
THE GYMKHANA STAKES
The Stewards held an inquiry into the running of the ponies Wild Life and Boolat Bay.
The owners and riders con- cerned were interrogated and their explanations accepted by the Stewards.
MURDER ECHO SENSATION
ARREST OF LIU LO-YING
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. CONSTERNATION AND AS-
ALLIANCES
Four-Power Pact Rumour
GERMANY, AUSTRIA, ITALY AND HUNGARY
VIENNA, TO-DAY.
À FOUR-POWER DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE BETWEEN - GER- MANY, ITALY, AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY, IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN URGED BY BARON VON NEURATH TO DR. SCHUSCHNIGG.
REPORTS TO THIS EFFECT HAVE BEEN DENIED IN VIENNA
AND BERLIN, BUT THEY STILL PERSIST.
IT IS ASSERTED THAT NO UNDERTAKINGS WERE ENTERED INTO BUT THE MATTER WILL BECOME A PROMINENT TOPIC WHEN DR. SCHUSCHINIGG VISITS SIGNOR MUS SOLINI IN MARCH.
Only generalities are mention-¡mm ed in the official communique is- sued after the Neurath-Schusch- nigg meeting, and it is assumed
reached.
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TONISHMENT HAVE SWEPT that no major decisions were Fingerprint Enquiry THROUGH POLITICAL QUAR- TERS AS THE RESULT OF THE ARREST OF MR. LIU LO-YING.
Mr. Liu was taken into custody by the Bureau of Public Safety in Shanghai to-day on charges of
Dr. Schuschnigg, it is surmised, desires to confer with Signor Mus- solini before committing Austria to any line of policy.
MUSSOLINT'S APPROVAL
Political circles point out that not complicity in the assassination of even preliminary Austrian consent Mr. Tang Yu-ien, Vice-Minister for is not to be expected without a full Foreign Affairs, in 1935, and of agreement with Il Duce. General Yang Yung-tai, the popu
Jar Governor of Hupeh, who was In the meantime, it is believed murdered in Hankow two or three that Dr. Schuschnigg did not make months ago.
any concession concerning the
Liu Lo-ying was until recently Hapsburg restoration.
Chairman of the Central Publicit Department of the Kuomintang. He is a member of the Canton faction.
-Reuter.
GRAVE ALGERIAN RIOTS
As a counter to the Nazis' wel- come yesterday, Government or-
British Navy's "Beat" Valencia Bombed Note Forgery. Sensation Race Results New Church Opening. Vienna Riots
British Air Raid Precautions
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**** Haile Selassie, former Emperor of Abyssinia. The British Gov- ernment's invitation to Haile Se- Lassie or a representative to attend the Coronation has caused sharp comment in Italy.
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Baron von Neurath "an ̈· Austrian- farewell over 100,000 non-Nazis lining the route to the station: Reuter.
LEGATION STATEMENT
London, To-day- Reports that Germany has pro- posed a Four-Power Defensive Pact between the Reich, Italy, Austria and-Hungary, are formally denied by the Austrian Legation here...
The Wilhelmstrasse also dis Another serious disturbance occlaims any knowledge of the pro- curred to-day, this time near Oran,
posed pact, according to a message when about 200 natives, incited by
from Berlin agitators, attacked an election meet The German Foreign Minister.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”) Algiers, To-day.
ing of Colonel de la Rocque's Fen de
many
Baron von Neurath, who has been Croix Party.
on a visit to Vienna, made a state- Four leaders of the party were ment before his return to stabbed while several motor lorries to the Austrian news agency.
were set on fire and destroyed.
ANATURAL OUTCOME Oran is now being patrolled by police and military in order to pre vent any further demonstration Torang-Ocean.
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