NEURATH ENDS MISSION
Official Budapest Communique
Budapest, To-day; "Both Germany and Hun- gary reject any proposals aiming at creation of a bloc and will continue to serve the cause of future peace along the lines followed hitherto.”
von
COMPLETE AGREEMENT
Budapest, To-day.
AVIATION GROWTH IN CHINA
EURASIA REPORT
PUBLISHED
Berlin, To-day: Unusually favourable develop- ments, were achieved by the Ger- man Air Company, "Deutsche Luf- thansa in the last year, as shown [by the annual report just publish-
ed.
than
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 15, 1937.
DR. KUNG IN] BERLIN
SEES ARMY IN TRAINING
LEAVING FOR U.S. TO-DAY
Berlin, To-day
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considerable. German officers
RA. GUNNER DIT SENTENCED
FORGING OF AN: AGREEMENT
WITH TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.
Gunner J. Webb, Royal Artillery, Lyemun Barracks, was this morning found guilty, by Mr. K. Keen at the
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The Chinese Finance Min-: ister, Dr. H. H. Kung, accom-Central Magistracy. on the charge panied by several Chinese
of forging an agreement between officers resident in Berlin,
himself and Messrs. Tsang Fook A declaration to this effect is The number of passengers car-
yesterday inspected units of
Piano Co. for the hire-purchase of the German armed forces,
a radio set, valued at $195, on contained in a communique issu-
including tanks, anti-aircraft
December 23, and with obtaining ed on the departure of the Ger-ried increased by 41.5 per cent. to
232,000; mail carried reached
guns and artillery, at the
goods from the complainant by man Foreign Minister; Baron. total of over two million kilo- military training ground at
means of the forged document. He Constantin von Neurath, to Ber-
was also charged with common Doeberitz, west of Berlin; * · lin at the conclusion of his visit grammes, this being more
Dr. Kung, who was welcomed assault on Mr. Tsang Fook. + to Belgrade, Sofia and Budapest. twice as much as last year, and the
Little has transpired regard-total distance flown increased by by a high officer on behalf of the The defendant; was fined $250 or ing the results of Baron
15 per cent. to 1,552 million kilo- Defence Minister, Field-Marshal three months on each on the first von Blomberg, watched the two charges, both sentences to run Neurath's tour but it is believed metres.
with An especially favourable year manoeuvres
concurrently, while on the third they are largely of an economic
charge he was fined $50 în "default nature-Reuter..
was enjoyed by the Sino-German interest while air line Eurasia Aviation Corpor explained the movements of the one month, this sentence to run
consecutively. ation, the number of passengers troops to him.
Mr. J. T. Prior, for Messrs. Tsang carried increasing by 91 per cent. ! During the interval in the man- to 4,800, while the amount of mail oeuvres Dr. Kung was the guest of Fook and Co. in outlining the case, over 13,700 kilogram- the Chinese Ambassador at lunch. said that on December 23, 1936, the mes, which represent an increase Dr. Kung had previously inspect-defendant came to the shop and ne- ed the Olympic village, now used gotiated for the purchase of a radio set on the hire-purchase system and as a training camp for officers.
LEAVING FOR U. S.-
this was agreed to. The Chinese Finance Minister is
Defendant gave his name as J. leaving Berlin to-day for Cher Gunter, for had he given his pro- bourg en route
the United per name, J. Webb, the set would States.
not have been sold to him, as some Webb He has instructed all the mem- credit had been given to bers of his mission to Europe to which had not been settled prompt- wind up the various tasks assigned ly. The set was taken away by the to them connected with investiga-accused but no payment was ever tion of financial and economic con-made on the set. ditions in Europe and to return to On May 18, the set was recognis- China as soon as possible. Only ed in a radio store in Kowloon by two or three of the delegation will one of the employees of the Com- remain in Europe.-Reuter.
A communique issued at the conclusion of Baron von Neurath's talks with Hungarian statesmen, says, inter alia:
carried was
of 153 per cent.
"The conversations were inspir- ed by mutual confidence and touch- FROM CHINA TO EUROPE ed on all questions in European Satisfaction is expressed at the politics, especially those in which extension of lines in China, but Germany and Hungary are direct-the company regrets that it was not ly interested.
possible to establish a direct line "Both countries are in complete from Germany to China, due to the agreement on future course of political situation, which makes action in political and economic such a line over Russia impossible. matters." -Trans-Ocean.
COUNTERFEIT
COINS ON
NAVAL BOAT
Pearleaf Cook's
In the South American service a
total of 2,53 million kilometres was travelled, representing an increase over last year of 23.5 per cent.
Reference is also made în the report to the proposed air route to North America. It is stated that a new four-motored flying boat has been completed and will be tried out on the North-Atlantic route during the present summer.
The fourth base ship will also be Government Revenue Officers, ready for service in the near fu- with the co-operation of the ture so that the requirements for a Royal Naval authorities, carried North-Atlantic flight are completed. out a systematic search of the-Trans-Ocean. Royal Fleet Auxiliary
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vessel.
Pearleaf on her arrival in the China And Colony on Sunday and discovered China
in the possession of the Chief Cook a quantity of Chinese coun- terfeit coins to the value of $50 local currency.
The Revenue Department were given information to the effect that someone on board was carrying counterfeit money and immediately notified the Naval authorities.
to
FOUR-YEAR-OLD TRIES TO SWIM
Harbour Rescue This Afternoon
a
pany and from enquiries it. was found that it had been left there by one, J. Webb.
The Police were informed and the set taken to the Police Station. On June 5, the defendant came to the Tsang
asked Fook Co. and about the. set. He struck Tsang Fook on the face.
Evidence was given by Mr. A timely alarm raised by
Tsang Fook, manager, of the Com- sampan woman on Blake Pier at
pany, Mr. V. Novikov, who recog- 1.50 p.m. to-day saved a four-
nised the set in Kowloon, and year-old Chinese boy from Leung Shui-min, the manager drowning. He was rescued by the Radio store in Kowloon, which
40-Hour Week To Kam-hung, employee of the bore out Mr. Prior's statement.
Geneva, To-day.
Republican- Motor-boat Com-
pany
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of
Lieut. G.P.H. Moffat Williams, on behalf of the accused, said that the to fact that the defendant went the store in uniform and gave his
He bore
the
The woman saw the lad strug- The Textile Commission has
gling in the water about six yards failed to reach an agreement
from the pier, and shouted. As regarding modifying the 40-
a result To dived into the water proper address did not suggest that hour week clause for applica-
and managed to save the lad. it was a gross or well-thought out tion to backward countries.
The boy, who was not seen to fraud but that the accused had been When the ship, which is an oil-'
Mr. Pao, the Chinese delegate, fall, said he was playing on the thoughtless and careless. tanker, came to her mooring, she said the Nanking Government sup- steps, when he slipped. Think-a moderate character in the Army boarded and immediately ported the 40-hour week in prin- ing that he could swim, he struck and had been re-engaged by
ciple but found difficulty in carry-out "as he had seen other boys Commanding Officer for a further Chief Cook Woo Ah Noy, in whose ing the principle into practice, do when they swim" but instead period of nine years, which was only possession the coins were found; especially in view of the extraterri-of getting nearer to the pier he done in cases of men of good char- atated that he had been in posses-torial conditions prevailing in some
was carried away further by the lacter. sion of the coins, which were not parts of China,
tide. He was then seen by the legal tender, since he was trans- ferred from the Cumberland to the
sampan woman.
Pearleaf last March.
was
searched.
The matter has been referred to the Commander-in-Chief, who will make the final decision.
Bitten By A Chow
Sapper Baldwin of the Royal Engineers reports that while on the Kowloon Pier" he was bitten by a chow dog. He was treated at the Whitfield barracks. The dog has not been traced.
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Mr. Nieh, the Chinese employers' delegate,' said that Chinese employ- ers were not in a position to accept a 40-hour week.
Such hours, he said, at present were impracticable owing to com- petitive conditions and the fact that 40, per cent. of the investment in the textile industry of China was Japanese and only 5 per cent. British. -Reuter.
A Gilbert and Sullivan touch was given to the Australian campaign- against Japanese pearl fishes near Darwin on Sunday when a patrol ves sel with captive craft in her The B, I. Steamship! Sirdhana charge, broke down, The captured will leave for Singapore, Port vessels proceeded to tow the dis- Swettenham, Penang, Rangoon and abled ship to Darwin, and indicate Calcutta on Sunday at 10.30 a.m. that they will claim salvage!
The lad was sent to the G.C.H., but was not detained.
J. C. Harvey was cautioned by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy this morning when he pleaded guilty to leaving his car unattended "outside the China Building on June 3. Defendant pleaded that he was a newcomer to the Colony and did not know the regulations.
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